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Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and s…
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culture · Chilean writer (1953–2003) · writer · poet · literary critic · essayist · novelist · also Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño Ávalos, Roberto Bolaño Avalos, Bolaño
Born 28 April 1953 · Died 15 July 2003 · Q297532
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2026· 5 entries
EscribiendoCine: Crítica de "Guerra de verano": Alicia Scherson adapta a Roberto Bolaño en un relato sobre memoria, poder y simulación
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Otros Cines: Festival de Tribeca 2026: Crítica de “Guerra de verano” (“Summer War”), película de Alicia Scherson sobre novela de Roberto Bolaño
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Trome.com: Las aventuras de Roberto Bolaño
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The New York Times: Roberto Bolaño
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2024· 1 entry
Bolaño's North American print and e-book rights were acquired by Farrar, Straus and Giroux which announced plans to reprint a large portion of Bolaño's catalog in English under the imprint Picador in June 2024, beginning
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño review – more mysteries and enigmas
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño review – a hymn to Mexico City
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The Guardian: The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño review – no justice for a literary outlaw
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: 2666 challenges: adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel for the stage
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2014· 1 entry
Oregonian: Roberto Bolano's work lives on in a biography and newly translated fiction
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2012· 1 entry
The Globe and Mail: Yet another last vexing work from Roberto Bolaño
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2011· 2 entries
The Boston Globe: 'The Third Reich' by Roberto Bolano
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The New Yorker: Into the Wilds of Roberto Bolaño
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2009· 2 entries
SFGate: 'The Skating Rink,' by Roberto Bolaño
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A number of unpublished novels were discovered among the author's papers
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2008· 3 entries
Observer: Andrew Wylie Puts Roberto Bolaño On the Market
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Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for 2666 (2008).
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The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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2007· 3 entries
Houston Chronicle: Roberto Bolaño translations
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And contains 21 pieces, 19 of which appear in the English edition, published in 2010
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And 2666 in 2008) in a translation by Natasha Wimmer
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2006· 1 entry
Is his first collection of poetry to be translated into English, appearing in a bilingual edition in 2008 under New Directions and translated by Laura Healy
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2004· 1 entry
Reportedly as a first draft submitted to his publisher after his death
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2003· 7 entries
Died 2003-07-15.
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“Exagerar es una forma de admirar cortésmente.”
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“Las metáforas son nuestra manera de perdernos en las apariencias o de quedarnos inmóviles en el mar de las apariencias.”
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“If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.”
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Came after a long period of declining health
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And was highly praised by Susan Sontag; at the same time, Bolaño's work also began appearing in various magazines, which gained him broader recognition among English readers
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Is his idea that culture, in particular literary culture, is a whore
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2000· 1 entry
Under the title Los perros románticos (The Romantic Dogs)
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1999).
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Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Premio Herralde (1998).
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1996· 1 entry
The events of the book take place from the late 19th century up to 2029
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Alcalá City Awards presented by Alcalá de Henares City Council (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Made him "decide that he was responsible for his family's future and that it would be easier to earn a living by writing fiction
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1989· 1 entry
But only discovered among Bolaño's papers after he died
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1980· 1 entry
When Bolaño was 27; the book remained unpublished until 2002, when it was published in Spanish as Amberes, a year before the author's death
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1977· 1 entry
And finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, on the Costa Brava, working as a dishwasher, campground custodian, bellhop, and garbage collector
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1975· 1 entry
A founding member of Infrarrealismo (Infrarealism), a minor poetic movement
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1974· 1 entry
Bolaño allegedly passed an interlude in El Salvador, spent in the company of the poet Roque Dalton and the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, though the veracity of this episode has been cast in
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1973· 1 entry
When he left Mexico for Chile to "help build the revolution" by supporting the democratic socialist government of Salvador Allende
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1968· 1 entry
Bolaño moved with his family to Mexico City, dropped out of school, worked as a journalist, and became active in left-wing political causes
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1953· 2 entries
Born 1953-04-28.
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In Santiago, the son of a truck driver (who was also a boxer) and a teacher
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