# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-bolano
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:24:37.336Z

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name: "Roberto Bolaño"
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description: "Roberto Bolaño Ávalos 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\"."
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birthDate: "1953-04-28"
deathDate: "2003-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump