Bolaño, Roberto 1953-2003
Overview
| Works: | 434 works in 2,200 publications in 24 languages and 37,381 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Short stories Detective and mystery fiction Thrillers (Fiction) History Psychological fiction Noir fiction Paranormal fiction Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Roles: | Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Honoree, Contributor, Other, Creator |
| Classifications: | PQ8098.12.O38, 863.64 |
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Most widely held works about
Roberto Bolaño
- Roberto Bolaño's fiction : an expanding universe by Chris Andrews( )
- Last evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- La modernidad insufrible : Roberto Bolaño en los límites de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea by Oswaldo Zavala( )
- The return by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- Witnessing beyond the human : addressing the alterity of the other in post-coup Chile and Argentina by Kate Jenckes( )
- The secret of evil by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- Between parentheses : essays, articles, and speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- The unknown university by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- Tres by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- Bolaño : a biography in conversations by Mónica Maristain( Book )
- Understanding Roberto Bolaño by Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat( Book )
- Roberto Bolaño : the last interview & other conversations by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- Roberto Bolaño, a less distant star : critical essays by Ignacio López-Calvo( Book )
- Roberto Bolaño as world literature by Nicholas Birns( Book )
- Para Roberto Bolaño by Jorge Herralde( Book )
- Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
- Bolaño salvaje by Gustavo Faverón Patriau( Book )
- México en la obra de Roberto Bolaño : memoria y territorio by Fernando Saucedo Lastra( Book )
- Roberto Bolaño : la escritura como tauromaquia by Roberto Bolaño( Book )
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Roberto Bolaño
2666 by
Roberto Bolaño(
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162 editions published between 2002 and 2017 in 23 languages and held by 3,670 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared
162 editions published between 2002 and 2017 in 23 languages and held by 3,670 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared
The savage detectives by
Roberto Bolaño(
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145 editions published between 1998 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 3,281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. -- from back cover
145 editions published between 1998 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 3,281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. -- from back cover
The Third Reich : a novel by
Roberto Bolaño(
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48 editions published between 2010 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 1,706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; when Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon, he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own--and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
48 editions published between 2010 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 1,706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; when Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon, he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own--and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
By night in Chile by
Roberto Bolaño(
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73 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying, and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. Among them are the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German novelist Ernst Junger, and General Augusto Pinochet - whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine - as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched his own."--Jacket
73 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying, and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. Among them are the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German novelist Ernst Junger, and General Augusto Pinochet - whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine - as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched his own."--Jacket
Monsieur Pain by
Roberto Bolaño(
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53 editions published between 1999 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 1,266 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, when his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in love with the widow Reynaud, and agrees to help. But two mysterious Spanish men follow Pain and bribe him not to treat Vallejo, and Pain takes the money. Ravaged by guilt and anxiety, however, he does not intend to abandon his new patient
53 editions published between 1999 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 1,266 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, when his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in love with the widow Reynaud, and agrees to help. But two mysterious Spanish men follow Pain and bribe him not to treat Vallejo, and Pain takes the money. Ravaged by guilt and anxiety, however, he does not intend to abandon his new patient
Distant star by
Roberto Bolaño(
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95 editions published between 1996 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An unnamed narrator pieces together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a new career that involved him in committing murder and other brutalities, and subsequently led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Some time later the narrator, now held in a prison camp, looks up and sees a World War II airplane writing the first words of the Book of Genesis in smoke in the sky. The aviator is none other Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry ... This novel of Roberto Bolano (who died 2003) is a chilling investigation of the fascist mentality and the limits of evil
95 editions published between 1996 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An unnamed narrator pieces together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a new career that involved him in committing murder and other brutalities, and subsequently led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Some time later the narrator, now held in a prison camp, looks up and sees a World War II airplane writing the first words of the Book of Genesis in smoke in the sky. The aviator is none other Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry ... This novel of Roberto Bolano (who died 2003) is a chilling investigation of the fascist mentality and the limits of evil
Amulet by
Roberto Bolaño(
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79 editions published between 1997 and 2018 in 8 languages and held by 1,203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tour de force, "Amulet" is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America
79 editions published between 1997 and 2018 in 8 languages and held by 1,203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tour de force, "Amulet" is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America
The skating rink by
Roberto Bolaño(
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60 editions published between 1993 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime scene
60 editions published between 1993 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime scene
Woes of the true policeman by
Roberto Bolaño(
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39 editions published between 2011 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 996 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"An unfinished masterpiece from the author of THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES and 2666"--
39 editions published between 2011 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 996 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"An unfinished masterpiece from the author of THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES and 2666"--
The insufferable gaucho by
Roberto Bolaño(
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50 editions published between 2003 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains five short stories and two essays by Chilean author Roberto Bolańo--Résumé de l'éditeur
50 editions published between 2003 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains five short stories and two essays by Chilean author Roberto Bolańo--Résumé de l'éditeur
A little lumpen novelita by
Roberto Bolaño(
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48 editions published between 2002 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"'ow I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime' so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--'ur parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us'-she drops out of school, gets a crappy job. At night, she is plagued by a terrible brightness, and soon she drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelita--one of the last novels Roberto Bolaño published--delivers a surprising, fractured tale of taking control of one's fate." --
48 editions published between 2002 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"'ow I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime' so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--'ur parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us'-she drops out of school, gets a crappy job. At night, she is plagued by a terrible brightness, and soon she drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelita--one of the last novels Roberto Bolaño published--delivers a surprising, fractured tale of taking control of one's fate." --
The romantic dogs : 1980-1998 by
Roberto Bolaño(
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38 editions published between 1995 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather
38 editions published between 1995 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather
Antwerp by
Roberto Bolaño(
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47 editions published between 2002 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona
47 editions published between 2002 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona
Nazi literature in the Americas by
Roberto Bolaño(
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10 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling
10 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling
La literatura nazi en América by
Roberto Bolaño(
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69 editions published between 1996 and 2018 in 5 languages and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling
69 editions published between 1996 and 2018 in 5 languages and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling
2666 by
Roberto Bolaño(
)
19 editions published between 2008 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared
19 editions published between 2008 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared
Putas asesinas by
Roberto Bolaño(
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48 editions published between 2001 and 2017 in Spanish and Russian and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""Ahora no hay tiempo para aburrirse, la felicidad desapareció en algún lugar de la tierra y solo queda el asombro”. En esta frase, pronunciada por el protagonista de uno de los relatos incluidos en Putas asesinas, reside la esencia que atraviesa todo el libro. En él, Roberto Bolaño trata algunos de los temas que conforman su universo literario y que están, por tanto, entretejidos en los argumentos de sus obras más emblemáticas: la sexualidad; las vidas de seres comunes-- como el propio autor o como sus lectore-- a medio camino entre lo extraordinario y lo cotidiano, entre la rebeldía y la vulnerabilidad; el poder subversivo de la literatura; el viaje como huida; la necesidad de develar lo incierto; la juventud; la violencia, y la lucha del desarraigado por encontrar un espacio propio en un lugar ajeno."--Amazon.com
48 editions published between 2001 and 2017 in Spanish and Russian and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""Ahora no hay tiempo para aburrirse, la felicidad desapareció en algún lugar de la tierra y solo queda el asombro”. En esta frase, pronunciada por el protagonista de uno de los relatos incluidos en Putas asesinas, reside la esencia que atraviesa todo el libro. En él, Roberto Bolaño trata algunos de los temas que conforman su universo literario y que están, por tanto, entretejidos en los argumentos de sus obras más emblemáticas: la sexualidad; las vidas de seres comunes-- como el propio autor o como sus lectore-- a medio camino entre lo extraordinario y lo cotidiano, entre la rebeldía y la vulnerabilidad; el poder subversivo de la literatura; el viaje como huida; la necesidad de develar lo incierto; la juventud; la violencia, y la lucha del desarraigado por encontrar un espacio propio en un lugar ajeno."--Amazon.com
Llamadas telefónicas by
Roberto Bolaño(
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55 editions published between 1997 and 2017 in Spanish and Italian and held by 386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
55 editions published between 1997 and 2017 in Spanish and Italian and held by 386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The savage detectives : a novel by
Roberto Bolaño(
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13 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.-http://www.booksinprint.com
13 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.-http://www.booksinprint.com
El secreto del mal by
Roberto Bolaño(
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13 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in Spanish and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects stories, sketches, and other writings that the Chilean author left unpublished at his death and that reflect his propensity to blend the borders of literary genres and to cultivate the art of inconclusiveness
13 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in Spanish and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects stories, sketches, and other writings that the Chilean author left unpublished at his death and that reflect his propensity to blend the borders of literary genres and to cultivate the art of inconclusiveness
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Related Identities
- Wimmer, Natasha Translator Narrator
- Andrews, Chris 1962- Author Translator
- Healy, Laura Translator
- Echevarría, Ignacio Editor
- Vallejo, César 1892-1938
- Gelman, Juan 1930-2014
- Zavala, Oswaldo 1975- Author
- Dittborn, Eugenio
- Chejfec, Sergio
- Jenckes, Kate 1969- Author
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Authors Authors, Chilean Authors, Spanish Bolaño, Roberto, Chile Chilean fiction Chilean literature Chilean poetry City and town life Criticism and interpretation Detective and mystery stories France--Paris Fugitives from justice Germans Intellectual life Italy--Rome Latin America Latin American poetry Life change events Man-woman relationships Mesmerism Mesmerists Mexico Mexico--Mexico City Missing persons Nazi literature Paranormal fiction Poets Poets, Chilean Poets, Mexican Police Politics and government Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Short stories Short stories, Chilean Short stories, Spanish Sodomy Spain Spain--Barcelona Spain--Costa Brava Spanish essays Spanish fiction Spanish literature Underground literature Unrequited love Vallejo, César, War games Widowers Women--Crimes against Young women
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Alternative Names
Avalos, Roberto Bolaño
Avalos, Roberto Bolaño 1953-2003
Bolanjas Robertas
Bolanjo 1953-2003
Bolanjo, Roberto 1953-2003
Bolaño Ávalos Roberto
Bolaño Ávalos, Roberto 1953-2003
Bolaño R.
Bolaño, Roberto
Bolano, Roberto 1953-2003
Bolanyo, Roberṭo 1953-2003
Bolenyo, Roberṭo 1953-2003
Boranyo, Roberŭt'o 1953-2003
Būlānyū, Rūbirtū, 1953-2003
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos
Roberto Bolaño Chilean author
Roberto Bolaño Chileens schrijver
Roberto Bolaño chilei író
Roberto Bolaño chilenischer Schriftsteller
Roberto Bolaño chilensk poet och författare
Roberto Bolaño chilensk poet og skribent
Roberto Bolaño chilijski pisarz
Roberto Bolaño chilský spisovatel
Roberto Bolaño escritor y poeta chileno
Roberto Bolaño scrittore e poeta cileno
Ρομπέρτο Μπολάνιο
Роберто Боланьо
Роберто Болањо
בולניו, רוברטו 1953-2003
רוברטו בולניו
روبرتو بولانو نویسنده و شاعر شیلیایی
روبرتو بولانيو
روبرتو بولانيو مؤلف تشيلي
روبرتو بولانیو
ਰੋਬੇਰਤੋ ਬੋਲਾਨੀਓ
റോബർട്ടോ ബൊളാനോ
რობერტო ბოლანიო ჩილელი რომანისტი, მოკლე მოთხრობების მწერალი, პოეტი და ესეისტი
로베르토 볼라뇨
볼라뇨, 로베르토 1953-2003
ボラーニョ, ロベルト
ロベルト・ボラーニョ
羅貝托·波拉尼奧
罗贝托·波拉尼奥 智利作家
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