Bolaño moved to Europe in
1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the
Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, on the Costa Brava, working as a
dishwasher, campground custodian, bellhop, and garbage collector. He worked by
day and wrote at night. From 1981 to his death, he lived in the
small Catalan beach town of Blanes.
Roberto
Bolaño (1953-2003), a
Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.
