Roberto Bolaño
The enormous posthumous success of literary novelist, poet and essayist Roberto Bolano is one of the most stunning triumphs of Latin American literature. Shortly before he died in 2003, Bolano sat down with journalist Monica Maristain to discuss his work, his life and his passions in a long interview that is as caustic as it is whimsical, surreal and always brutally frank. Bolano's personal intensity, quick humour and erudition creates a superb read.