"shelf marked 'For Completists Only,' on which also sit ""Antwerp"", ""Monsieur Pain"", ""The Romantic Dogs"", ""Between Parentheses"", and ""The Skating Rink""."" The Third Reich (novel) The Third Reich (""El Tercer Reich"" in Spanish) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño written in 1989. It was discovered among his papers following his death and published in Spanish in 2010. An English translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in November 2011. The novel concerns Udo Berger, a German war-game champion, who returns with his girlfriend Ingeborg to the small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of"
"""The only novel that doesn't embarrass me is Antwerp."" ""2666"" was published in 2004, reportedly as a first draft submitted to his publisher after his death. The text of ""2666"" was the major preoccupation of the last five years of his life when he was facing death from liver problems. At more than 1,100 pages (898 pages in the English-language edition), the novel is divided into five ""parts"". Focused on the mostly unsolved and still ongoing serial murders of the fictional Santa Teresa (based on Ciudad Juárez), ""2666"" depicts the horror of the 20th century through a wide cast of"
"would be easier to earn a living by writing fiction."" However, he continued to think of himself primarily as a poet, and a collection of his verse, spanning 20 years, was published in 2000 under the title ""Los perros románticos"" (""The Romantic Dogs""). Bolaño's death in 2003 came after a long period of declining health. He suffered from liver failure and had been on a liver transplant waiting list while working on ""2666""; he was third on the list at the time of his death. Six weeks before he died, Bolaño's fellow Latin American novelists hailed him as the most"
"(translated into English as ""Hopscotch"") by Argentinian novelist Julio Cortázar, whom Bolaño greatly respected, both because of its non-linear structure and its portrayal of young, bohemian artists. ""2666"", Bolaño's final, posthumous novel has many points in common with ""The Savage Detectives"". According to the Note to the First Edition of 2666, among Bolaño's notes is a line saying that ""The narrator of 2666 is Arturo Belano,"" a character from ""The Savage Detectives"", as well as a line for the end of 2666, ""And that's it, friends. I've done it all, I've lived it all. If I had the strength, I'd"
"[interviewer laughs] (BBC interview, aired Nov. 22, 2018) Isabel Allende Isabel Allende (; born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre of ""magical realism"", is famous for novels such as ""The House of the Spirits"" (""La casa de los espíritus"", 1982) and ""City of the Beasts"" (""La ciudad de las bestias"", 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called ""the world's most widely read Spanish-language author."" In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President"
"short story collections. Although Bolaño espoused the lifestyle of a bohemian poet and literary enfant terrible for all his adult life, he only began to produce substantial works of fiction in the 1990s. He almost immediately became a highly regarded figure in Spanish and Latin American letters. In rapid succession, he published a series of critically acclaimed works, the most important of which are the novel ""Los detectives salvajes"" (""The Savage Detectives""), the novella ""Nocturno de Chile"" (""By Night in Chile""), and, posthumously, the novel ""2666"". His two collections of short stories ""Llamadas telefónicas"" and ""Putas asesinas"" were awarded literary"
"war (she is then married to Bubis, the publisher). At the end of this part Bolaño's narrator describes the life of Lotte, Archimboldi's sister, and it is revealed that the femicide suspect Klaus Haas is her son and thus Archimboldi's nephew. The critical reception has been almost unanimously positive. ""2666"" was considered the best novel of 2005 within the literary world of both Spain and Latin America. Before the English-language edition was published in 2008, ""2666"" was praised by Oprah Winfrey in her ""O, The Oprah Magazine"" after she was given a copy of the translation before it was officially"
"characters, including police officers, journalists, criminals, and four academics on a quest to find the secretive, Pynchonesque German writer Benno von Archimboldi—who also resembles Bolaño himself. In 2008, the book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The award was accepted by Natasha Wimmer, the book's translator. In March 2009, ""The Guardian"" newspaper reported that an additional Part 6 of ""2666"" was among papers found by researchers going through Bolaño's literary estate. ""The Third Reich"" (""El Tercer Reich"" in Spanish) was written in 1989 but only discovered among Bolaño's papers after he died. It was published in Spanish"
"Isabel Allende Isabel Allende (; born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre of ""magical realism"", is famous for novels such as ""The House of the Spirits"" (""La casa de los espíritus"", 1982) and ""City of the Beasts"" (""La ciudad de las bestias"", 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called ""the world's most widely read Spanish-language author."" In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal"
"followed another. Eleven books followed; the last one appeared in 1974: ""Am I Dys-Lazy?"" The sales of the series, in all editions starting from 1947, summed in 2007 up to more than five million copies sold. It is listed as ""recommended reading"" at Chilean schools and is currently (2011) edited by Random House in Santiago, Chile. Chile's main award in letters, the Premio Nacional de Literatura, was given to Marcela Paz in 1982, a few years before her death in 1985. In 1968, ""Papelucho the Missionary"" was a candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Award from the International Board on"
"2006, ""Extensión de la Palabra"" was published by Mexican group Aldus, an anthology of his poetry, theater and short stories. In 2007, Visor Editores from Spain published his ""Poesía Completa"". In 2009, he was granted the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. In July 2012, Tribal Editores published ""Pararrayos de Dios"", a compendium of short chronicles where he describes a series of juicy personal experiences with some reputed deceased Peruvian poet-colleagues. In November 2013, he was awarded the National Award of Culture 2013, Category Career, by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and PetroPeru. Hinostroza died at the age of 75 on November 1,"
"genre. He also built the foundations for a television playwright of wide repercussions in Chile. In 1999 he released a new drama named ""No me pidas la luna"" and in 2002 Marchant published the historical novel ""Me parece que no somos felices"", followed by ""La joven de blanco"" (2004). This was followed by ""Sangre como la mía"" (2006), for which he received the Altazor National Arts award in Chile. His most recent creation is the novel ""El amante sin rostro"". Although Jorge Marchant officially lives in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, he spends more or less half of the"
"the basis for the book, ""Huesos en el desierto"" (Bones in the desert), published in 2002, which mixes reporting, essay and reflective writing. This work was a finalist at the Lettre Ulysses International Prize of Literary Reporting in Germany and was translated into Italian and French. This work influenced other writing on the topic, including a direct collaboration with writer Roberto Bolaño, who was writing the novel 2666 in the early 2000s as well. González Rodríguez blamed the murders of the women on ""machismo"" and misogyny in Mexico. This examination of violence led to two other books that form a"
"Mistral's works are harder to find, though collected editions are available. Contemporary Chilean authors have earned an international reputation in the literary world. The most famous is novelist Isabel Allende, whose ""House of the Spirits"", ""Of Love and Shadows"", and ""Eva Luna"" have all been international bestsellers. She is the niece of president Salvador Allende. The increasingly popular Luis Sepúlveda has written stylish short novels like ""The Old Man Who Read Love Stories"", and combines travel writing with imaginative fiction in Full Circle: a South American Journey. José Donoso's novel ""Curfew"" recalls the latter days of the recent military dictatorship,"
"2016, leaving 7 unpublished books. Rodolfo Hinostroza Rodolfo Hinostroza (October 27, 1941 – November 1, 2016) was a Peruvian poet, writer, journalist, food critic and astrologer. He was born in Lima. In 1962 he left Peru with a scholarship to study Philosophy and English Literature at the University San Cristobal of La Habana. There, he wrote his first poetry book ""Consejero del Lobo"" published by ""Editorial El Puente"" in 1964. Frustrated by the way the Castro régime was using the scholarship students to his political ends, he managed to leave in 1964, after a series of intense experiences on the"
"Sergio Missana Sergio Missana (1966) is a Chilean novelist, journalist, scholar, editor, scriptwriter and environmental advocate. He is a professor of Latin American literature at the Stanford University Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile, and Americas Director of Climate Parliament, an environmental NGO. Missana is the author of six novels: ""El invasor"" (""The Invader""), 1997; ""Movimiento falso"" (""False Movement""), 2000, a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Award in 2001; ""La calma"" (""The Calm""), 2005; ""El día de los muertos"" (""The Day of the Dead""), 2007; ""Las muertes paralelas"" (""The Parallel Deaths""), 2010; and ""El discípulo"" (""The Disciple""), 2014."
"Prize in Literature (1945). Chile's most famous poet is Pablo Neruda, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature (1971) and is world-renowned for his extensive library of works on romance, nature, and politics. His three highly personalized homes in Isla Negra, Santiago and Valparaíso are popular tourist destinations. Among the list of other Chilean poets are Carlos Pezoa Véliz, Vicente Huidobro, Gonzalo Rojas, Pablo de Rokha, Nicanor Parra and Raúl Zurita. Isabel Allende is the best-selling Chilean novelist, with 51 millions of her novels sold worldwide. Novelist José Donoso's novel ""The Obscene Bird of Night"" is considered by critic Harold"
"to every single government so as to maintain his diplomatic appointment in Unesco. However, apart from this embarrassing episode, Vargas Llosa has consistently praised the literary work of Ribeyro, whom he considers as one of the great storytellers in Spanish. The relationship between the two authors, who shared flat in Paris was otherwise complex and full of mysteries. His last years were spent traveling between Europe and Peru. In the last year of his life he had decided to remain definitely in his homeland in Peru. He died on December 4, 1994, days after getting the Juan Rulfo Prize for"
"the 1990 national prize of literature. Elizondo died in Mexico City on March 29, 2006, of cancer. His funeral was held at the palacio de Bellas Artes. Salvador Elizondo Salvador Elizondo Alcalá (Mexico City, December 19, 1932 - March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style literature in Latin America, he wrote as a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and journalist. His most famous novels are ""Farabeuf"" (1965) and ""El hipogeo Secreto"" (1968). He is also known for ""El grafógrafo"""
"José Donoso José Donoso Yáñez (October 5, 1924 – December 7, 1996) was a Chilean writer. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States (Iowa) and mainly Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death. Donoso is the author of a number of noted stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the"
"las fiestas"" [The secret of the parties] (1997) and the trilogy ""El día del Watusi"" [The day of the Watusi], formed by ""Los juegos feroces"" [The ferocious games] (2002), ""Viento y joyas"" [Wind and jewels] (2002) and ""El idioma imposible"" [The impossible language] (2003), a portrait of Barcelona in the last quarter of the 20th century, from the chabolismo of the late Franco years to the Olympic Games of 1992 and the financial scandals of the 1990s. In 2008 he won the Premio Nadal with the last novel he ever published, ""Lo que sé de los vampiros"" [What I know"
"Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. Other narrative works include narrative productions ""Galíndez"" (1991), winner of the National Narrative Award; ""El estrangulador"" (The strangler) (1994) and ""Erec y Enide"" (Erec and Enide) (2002). In 1992 he published ""Autobiografía del general Franco"", which was awarded the 1994 international prize ""Premio Internacional de Literatura Ennio Flaiano"". For many years, he contributed columns and articles to the Madrid-based daily newspaper ""El País"". He died in Bangkok, Thailand, while returning to his home country from a speaking tour of Australia. His last book, ""La aznaridad"", was published posthumously. The first"
"destined for the youth audience, ""Ave satani"" (1999), which, reissued by Alfaguara in 2004, became """", and which reflects Jara's love for heavy metal. His consecration in Chile came in 2002, when he won the award of the National Book and Reading Council for best unpublished novel of the year with ""El sangrado"". It was at that time that the magazine ""Qué Pasa"" included him, together with Marcelo Simonetti and , in ""the trio of the country's literary renewal"", and Hernán Rivera Letelier wrote about Jara: ""He always showed himself to be a literary animal. He eats, dreams, and fornicates"
"""The Myth of Mental Illness"". A detail from ""Flora"" was used on the cover of the 2009 album ""Bonfires on the Heath"" by The Clientele. Arcimboldo's surrealist imagination is visible also in fiction. The first and last sections of ""2666"", Roberto Bolaño's last novel, concern a fictional German writer named Archimboldi, who takes his pseudonym from Arcimboldo. The 1992 novelette ""The Coming of Vertumnus"" by Ian Watson counterpoints the innate surrealism of the eponymous work against a drug-induced altered mental state. Giuseppe Arcimboldo Giuseppe Arcimboldo (; also spelled ""Arcimboldi"") (1526 or 1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter"
"Barcelona-based publisher Anagrama, but he never showed the actual manuscript to anyone until he died: the manuscript is a first copy. Originally planning it as a single book, Bolaño then considered publishing ""2666"" as five volumes to provide more income for his children; however, the heirs decided otherwise and the book was published in one lengthy volume. Bolaño had been well aware of the book's unfinished status, and said a month before his death that over a thousand pages still had to be revised. The meaning of the title, ""2666"", is typically elusive; even Bolaño's friends did not know the"
"also published compilations of essays in El espejo del olvido (The mirror of forgetfulness) (Dolmen Ediciones, Santiago, 1997), and La ciudad y las palabras (The city and words) (Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, 2004). In addition, he has collaborated with the newspapers El Mercurio (Chile) and El País (Spain), and with the magazines Ecos de España y Latinoamérica (Germany), and The International Literary Quarterly, New York. In 2003, with the novel El naufragio de la luz (The shipwreck of the light) he unanimously won the Dos Orillas award, given by five European publishing houses, that have translated his novel into French, Portuguese"
"Chile. This novel was translated to several languages and brought to the screen by Chilean-French director Raúl Ruiz. Lafourcade's latest novel, ""El Inesperado"" (2004), imagines the life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, and though a work of fiction, it is inspired by the letters of the poet and three years of additional research. The novel was launched on October 20, 2004, matching the 150th anniversary of the birth the poet. Other titles include (not an exhaustive list): ""Pena de Muerte"" (1952), ""Para Subir al Cielo"" (1959), ""la Fiesta del Rey Acab"" (1959), ""El principe y las Ovejas"" (1961),"
"Rudolfo Anaya Rudolfo Anaya (born October 30, 1937) is an American author. Best known for his 1972 novel ""Bless Me, Ultima"", Anaya is considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. Rudolfo Anaya was raised in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His father was a ""vaquero"" from a family of cattle workers and sheepherders. His mother’s family was composed of farmers from Puerto De Luna in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico. Anaya grew up with two half-brothers, from his mother’s previous marriage, and four sisters. The beauty of the desert flatlands of New Mexico, referenced as"
"the eleven who were kidnapped and taken to Paris and other European cities; and six of the last Yahgans she took in 1964 and 1987. Later she wrote ""Hain: Selknam Initiation Ceremony"" and ""End of a World: The Selknam of Tierra del Fuego"", both books including a CD of Lola Kiepja's Hain chants (2003, Santiago de Chile). In 2004 she published ""El fenómeno de la canoa yagán"" (Universidad Marítima de Chile, Viña del Mar) and in 2006 both ""Darwin in Tierra del Fuego"" (Buenos Aires) and ""Lom: amor y venganza, mitos de los yámana"" (Santiago de Chile). Her last book"
"Concha Alós María Concepción Alós Domingo (22 May 1926 – 1 August 2011), better known as Concha Alós, was a Spanish writer. Born in Valencia, Alós lived the better part of her life in Barcelona. In 1962 she made her literary debut with the novel ""Los Enanos"", and followed it up with ""Los cien pájaros"" in 1963. The success she attained with her early works was consolidated in 1964 when she received the 13th Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize for her novel ""Las hogueras"". Her last published novel was ""El asesino de los sueños"" in 1986. Part of her"
"Chico Xavier Chico Xavier () or Francisco Cândido Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido (, April 2, 1910 – June 30, 2002), was a popular philanthropist and medium in Spiritism. During a period of 60 years he wrote over 490 books and several thousand letters claiming to use a process known as ""psychography and after his death many dozens of books were issued based on old letters and manuscripts which gradually became public bringing the total number of books up to 496"". The books written by Chico covered a vast range of topics from religion, philosophy, historical romances and novels,"
"[constituting] one of the greatest bestsellers of the country's literary history."" Various media outlets have estimated the total number of copies sold between five and seven million. Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas (30 March 1919 – 5 January 1975) was a Chilean novelist, biographer, journalist, and screenwriter for radio, theater, and television. By his own account, ""he lived to write and for what he gained from writing."" Upon his death, he had more than 30 titles under his belt, as well as lyrics, poems, and a significant number of scripts for film, radio, and television. Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas was"
"and documented research. His late books: ""Los Cuatro reyes de la baraja"", ""Bolívar en vivo"", ""1998"" and ""El Vuelo del Alcatraz"", were published posthumously. During the final years of his life and after his death his works gained great popularity, making him one of the best-selling writers of Venezuela. His success resulted from the combination of typical Venezuelan stories with historical facts; in his works, Herrera Luque looked beyond the official history of the country and created a parallel narrative to it. Francisco Herrera Luque died in Caracas from a heart attack on 15 April 1991. In 1992 the Francisco"