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Roberto Bolano

Biography

Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of 50.

Roberto Bolano

Books by Roberto Bolano