Awards & Winners

Roberto Bolaño

Date of Birth 28-April-1953
Place of Birth Santiago
(Chile, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Chile)
Nationality Chile
Also know as Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño Ávalos, Robert Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño Ávalos
Profession Writer, Poet, Author
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos 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."

Awards by Roberto Bolaño

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roberto Bolaño.

2008


New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : 2666
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Honored for : 2666

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2666

2007


New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : The Savage Detectives