The power of literature in one person

Roberto Bolaño is a chilean writer that, in his time, told a billion of histories of the realities that he saw around Mexico, Spain and Chile, his homeland.
He was born in Santiago de Chile, in 1953, and he died the 15 of July in 2003, in Blanes, Spain. He had two children: Lautaro and Alexandra. He wrote a lot of works, and a lot of them were published posthumously, like his biggest novel, 2666. 
Most of his work was written in Spain, Blanes, a little city near Barcelona. Examples of that are The savage detectives, the Nazi Literature in the Americas or Distant Star. He won a lot of prizes for his work.
I like him because he writes about the realities of the people he met, and the places where he lived. He was also some kind of journalist. He constantly wrote articles and about the news he saw. But he wasn't the current idea of what we have of journalist: he lived, he saw some things that he wanted to write about, to talk about realities that, in other times, has been unseen.

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  1. diegovalleJuly 20, 2018 at 2:19 PM

    wow, bolaños is also one of my favorite authors. although I have reservations about his political vision.

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  2. MarianaytuJuly 20, 2018 at 2:28 PM

    Bolaño is amazing, he writes about the realities of the people he met also my favorite chilean filmmaker, she creates about the realities of the people. He is a wonderful writer.

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  3. UnknownJuly 20, 2018 at 2:28 PM

    bolaño was a fake, long live to carlos wieder!!!

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  4. az-zahrJuly 20, 2018 at 2:34 PM

    Stop talking about Bolaño. Read real literature.

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  5. macamartinezmJuly 21, 2018 at 10:46 PM


    I loved the photo you chose of Bolaño hahaha

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  6. Tamara Nuñez SotoAugust 30, 2018 at 10:09 AM

    Roberto Bolaño is amazing! He has a wonderful capacity to capture the reality, is very talented

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  7. SebastiánAugust 30, 2018 at 3:37 PM

    My favorite director tries to glimpse the social reality of the people he met as well, I think that is a very important thing as a communicator

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