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October 1st, 2007 | Issue forty-eight

Luck (Translated by Laura Healy)

by Roberto Bolano
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Luck (Translated by Laura Healy)

Roberto Bolano
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos 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.

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