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Roberto Bolano (Author) Roberto Bolano 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 R mulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition. Chris Andrews (Translator) Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies of the University of Melbourne. His translation of Roberto Bolano's Distant Star in 2005 won the prestigious Valle-Inclan Prize.
The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity * Le Monde * ‘Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.’ -- Lauren Groff ‘Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled.’ -- Mariana Enríquez ‘Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental.’ * Times Literary Supplement *
