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Biographical note
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.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
Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.
A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
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'The best and weirdest kind of literary game... A strangely profound place to get lost’ Financial Times
‘A darkly comic celebration of the wilder horizons of writing, good, plodding, lunatic and terrible’ London Review of Books