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Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolano was a Chilean novelist and poet, winner of the prestigious Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) in 1999.
Life
For most of his youth, Bolano was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain, where he finally settled down in the early 1980s in the small Catalan beach town of Blanes. There he died of a liver disorder he suffered from for more than a decade. He was survived by his Spanish wife and their two children, whom he once called "my only motherland." ...
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