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Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003

LC control no.n 80139757
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ8098.12.O38
Personal name headingBolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003
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Variant(s)Avalos, Roberto Bolaño, 1953-2003
Bolaño Avalos, Roberto, 1953-2003
Associated countryChile
Birth date1953-04-28
Death date2003-07-16
Place of birthSantiago (Chile)
Place of deathBarcelona (Spain)
Field of activityPoetry Fiction
Profession or occupationAuthors Poets Novelists Essayists
Found inMuchachos desnudos bajo el arcoiris de fuego, 1979 (a.e.) t.p. (Roberto Bolaño) p. 156 (Chileno, 1953)
Sensini, 1997: t.p. (Roberto Bolaño) p. 29 (Roberto Bolaño Avalos)
El País (Madrid, Spain), July 16, 2003 (d. July 16, 2003 in Spain)
Roberto Bolaño, 2009: colophon (1950-2003; Chilean poet, novelist and essayist)
English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 14, 2018: (Roberto Bolaño Ávalos; 28 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"; born: Santiago, Chile; died, Barcelona, Spain)
A la intemperie, 2019: t.p. (Roberto Bolaño)
National bib agency no.1030B0145E
Associated languagespa
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