Roberto Bolaño

Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed “by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times),” and as “the real thing and the rarest” (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50.

Roberto Bolaño

Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed “by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times),” and as “the real thing and the rarest” (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50.

Books by Roberto Bolaño

  • Antwerp

    Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

    E Book, 2012

    Bolaño’s radical first novel makes its paperback debut as a New Directions Pearl.
  • Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

    Roberto Bolaño, Ignacio Echevarria, Natasha Wimmer

    E Book, 2012

    The essays of Roberto Bolaño in English at last.
  • The Insufferable Gaucho

    Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

    E Book, 2013

    These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolaño as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
  • Monsieur Pain

    Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

    E Book, 2012

    Roberto Bolaño takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel.
  • Nazi Literature in the Americas

    Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

    E Book, 2012

    A "biographical dictionary" gathering 30 brief accounts of poets, novelists and editors (all fictional) who espouse fascist or extremely right-wing political views.
  • The Return

    Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

    E Book, 2012

    A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives.
  • The Secret of Evil

    Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

    E Book, 2012

    A collection that gathers everything Bolaño was working on before his untimely death.
  • The Skating Rink

    Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

    E Book, 2012

    A phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery.
  • The Romantic Dogs: Poems

    Roberto Bolaño, Laura Healy

    E Book, 2014

    Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolaño as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet.