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Date of Birth
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28-April-1953
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Place of Birth
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Santiago
(Chile, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Chile)
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Nationality
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Chile
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Also know as
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Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño Ãvalos, Robert Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño Ãvalos
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Profession
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Writer, Poet, Author
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Roberto Bolaño Ãvalos was a Chilean writer, author of novels, short-stories, poems, and essays. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages." He has been described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation."
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