Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño was born on 28 April 1953 in Santiago, to a lorry-driver father and a schoolteacher mother. His family moved to Mexico City in 1968; there he co-founded infrarealism, an avant-garde poetry movement. Back in Chile, he was detained for eight days after the coup, an episode that some friends of the time doubt. Settled in Spain from 1977, he lived on odd jobs, dishwasher, dustman, night watchman, then settled in Blanes, in Catalonia, and came late to the novel. He died in July 2003 in Barcelona, of liver failure.

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• NovelThe Savage DetectivesLos detectives salvajesRoberto Bolaño · 1998Literature