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Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, won the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation", in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666. Laura Healy is a writer, designer, and literary translator. Her translations of Bolaño and other Latin American poets have appeared in Harper's, The Believer, The Nation, and many other journals. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island and works as the managing editor of The Harvard Review. |
