Interviews with the writer Roberto Bolaños. Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Santiago de Chile, April 28, 1953 - Barcelona, u200bu200bJuly 15, 2003)1 was a Chilean writer and poet, author of more than two dozen books, among which his novels The Wild Detectives stand out, winner of the Herralde Prize in 1998 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1999, and the posthumous 2666. After his death he has become one of the most influential writers in the Spanish language, as demonstrated by the numerous publications dedicated to his work and the fact that three novels - in addition to the already mentioned The Savage Detectives and 2666, the brief Distant Star - appear in the top 15 places on the list made in 2007 by 81 writers and Latin American and Spanish critics, with the best 100 books in the Spanish language of the last 25 years.u200b His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, German, Italian4 and Dutch. At the time of his death he had 37 publishing contracts in ten countries. Posthumously, the list grew to include more countries, including the United States, and amounted to 50 contracts and 49 translations in twelve countries, all of them prior to the publication of 2666, his most ambitious novel. In addition, the author enjoys excellent reviews from both contemporary writers and literary critics and is considered one of the great Latin American authors of the 20th century, along with other writers of the stature of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, with whom he is often compared. --Amazon.com
