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Roberto Bolaño
Santiago, Chile
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los de…
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (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 scholars for ages". The New York Times described him as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation".
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2026
Maldoror : Festival d'Avignon 2026
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2026
Summer War
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2017
Escribir no es normal: Roberto Bolaño y su paso por Cataluña
Movie Roberto Bolaño
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2016
Roberto Bolaño: La batalla futura
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
The Future
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2007
Nocturno de Chile
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