WRITER

Roberto Bolaño

1953 - 2003

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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish: [roˈβeɾto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos] ; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roberto Bolaño has received more than 1,279,785 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Roberto Bolaño is the 1,084th most popular writer (down from 1,078th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Chile and the 5th most popular Chilean Writer.

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roberto Bolaño ranks 1,084 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Giono, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Garcilaso de la Vega, Nikolay Nekrasov, and John Berger. After him are Ivan Cankar, Dylan Thomas, Ruy González de Clavijo, E. M. Forster, Joseph Karo, and Nathalie Sarraute.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Roberto Bolaño ranks 53. Before him are Lenín Moreno, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Tess Gerritsen, Cha Bum-kun, Mata Amritanandamayi, and David Morse. After him are Gaetano Scirea, José María Aznar, Kristalina Georgieva, Ron Jeremy, John Zorn, and Armen Sarkissian. Among people deceased in 2003, Roberto Bolaño ranks 44. Before him are Celia Cruz, Horst Buchholz, Edgar F. Codd, David Dacko, Franco Corelli, and Jack Elam. After him are Mario Beccaria, Monique Wittig, Lee Yoo-hyung, Denis Thatcher, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and Waichiro Omura.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Roberto Bolaño ranks 15 out of 321. Before him are Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Manuel Pellegrini (1953), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Patricio Aylwin (1918), Claudio Arrau (1903), and Violeta Parra (1917). After him are Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Elías Figueroa (1946), Ricardo Lagos (1938), Lautaro (1534), Iván Zamorano (1967), and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Roberto Bolaño ranks 5. Before him are Pablo Neruda (1904), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Gabriela Mistral (1889), and Luis Sepúlveda (1949). After him are Nicanor Parra (1914), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Antonio Skármeta (1940), José Donoso (1924), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Cristina Calderón (1928), and Alberto Hurtado (1901).

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