Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (died 2003)

Roberto Bolaño

Chilean writer (1953–2003)

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,…