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Biographical note
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade.
Sunday Times
An artful alternate history of modern literature
Financial Times
Bolaño's impressive novel triumphs
Observer
An extraordinary fantasia
Independent
Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful
- Nicole Krauss,
Roberto Bolaño: that <i>poete maudit</i>, irreverent and brilliant, who wrote many of the best stories and novels of his generation.
One of the most respected and influential writers of his generation... At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.
It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius
Washington Post
Roberto Bolaño made each book more ambitious so that it will take us many years to come to terms with his vast achievement