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Roberto Bolaño

Translated by Natasha Wimmer

‘I said to myself that maybe he wasn’t about to die.’

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño was a Chilean writer and poet, posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Cricle Award for his novel 2666. Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize.

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Translated by Natasha Wimmer

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are Space Invaders by Nona Fernández and Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue.

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