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Roberto Bolaño
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Chilean author
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Roberto Bolaño was a person who lived from April 28, 1953, until July 15, 2003. He is recognized as an author with a body of work that includes titles such as *Muchachos desnudos bajo el arcoiris de fuego*, *Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce / Diario de bar*, *Sensini*, and *Posthumous Stories*. Records indicate he has 43 works associated with his name.
His writings have been referenced by 260 other encyclopedia articles. One of his notable quotes states, "We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain."
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1953-04-28
- Died
- 2003-07-15
- Works
- 43
Top works
- Muchachos desnudos bajo el arcoiris de fuego
- Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce / Diario de bar
- Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce
- Sensini
- Posthumous Stories
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 113
- Total plays
- 2,434
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβerto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos]) (April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003) was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Roberto+Bola%C3%B1o">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,939x
- Quantum Mechanical Continuum Solvation Models
· 2005 · cited 16,223x
- SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation
· 2017 · cited 16,087x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,947x
- Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
· 2017 · cited 12,173x
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Quotes
- “¿Cómo reconocer una obra de arte? ¿Cómo separarla, aunque sólo sea un momento, de su aparato crítico, de sus exégetas, de sus incansables plagiarios, de sus ninguneadores, de su final destino de soledad? Es fácil. Hay que traducirla.”
- “Those in power (even if it's only for a little while) known nothing about literature, all they care about is power. And I'll play the fool for my readers, if I feel like it, but never for the powerful.”
- “If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.”
- “The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”
- “We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”
- “It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Roberto Bolaño Ávalos , ( 1953-04-28 ) 28 April 1953, Santiago , Chile
- Died
- 15 July 2003 (2003-07-15) (aged 50), Barcelona , Spain
- Occupation
- Writer poet
- Language
- Spanish
- Notable works
- The Savage Detectives (1998) 2666 (2004)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos ( Spanish: [roˈβeɾto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos] ; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, 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".
Bolaño's work is highly regarded by both writers and contemporary literary critics. The New York Times described him as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation" and he has frequently been compared with Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Dutch and Greek.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roberto Bolaño” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.