Robert Bolaño

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Robert Bolaño (1953–2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

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 fifty.

[edit] External links

• The New York Times Sunday Book Review of The Savage Detectives: "The Visceral Realist"

• Biographical essay by Natasha Wimmer: "Roberto Bolaño and The Savage Detectives"

• New York Review of Books: "The Great Bolaño"

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