Nazi Literature in the Americas

The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade. * Sunday Times *An artful alternate history of modern literature * Financial Times *Bolaño’s impressive novel triumphs * Observer *An extraordinary fantasia * Independent *Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful – Nicole KraussRoberto Bolaño: that poete maudit, irreverent and brilliant, who wrote many of the best stories and novels of his generation.One of the most respected and influential writers of his generation… At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius * Washington Post *Roberto Bolaño made each book more ambitious so that it will take us many years to come to terms with his vast achievement

Roberto Bolaño 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 Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.