Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, best known for The Savage Detectives, which won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1999, and for 2666, a sprawling novel set partly in a Mexican border town. Born in Santiago in 1953, he died in Barcelona in 2003, and 2666 won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2008. His other books include By Night in Chile, Distant Star and Nazi Literature in the Americas.