Roberto Bolaño
1953–2003 · Chilean-Mexican · 20th Century
Known for: Wrote 2666 and The Savage Detectives — the Latin American novelist who made literature feel dangerous again
Bolano was a Chilean-Mexican novelist whose posthumous 2666 and The Savage Detectives are considered masterpieces. He lived in poverty, wrote obsessively, and died at 50 from liver failure.
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