Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Roberto Bolaño across 9 places, from 1953 to 2003.
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Roberto Bolaño is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Roberto Bolaño was documented, and when
1953year
Santiagoattested“Bolaño was born in 1953 in Santiago, the son of a truck driver (who was also a boxer) and a teacher.”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1968year
Mexico Cityattested“In 1968, Bolaño moved with his family to Mexico City, dropped out of school, worked as a journalist, and became active in left-wing political causes.”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1974year
El Salvadorattested“On his overland return from Chile to Mexico in 1974, Bolaño allegedly passed an interlude in El Salvador, spent in the company of the poet Roque Dalton and the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, though the verac…”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1974year
Chileattested“On his overland return from Chile to Mexico in 1974, Bolaño allegedly passed an interlude in El Salvador, spent in the company of the poet Roque Dalton and the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, though the verac…”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1974year
Mexicoattested“On his overland return from Chile to Mexico in 1974, Bolaño allegedly passed an interlude in El Salvador, spent in the company of the poet Roque Dalton and the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, though the verac…”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1977year
Barcelonaattested“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.”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1977year
Spainattested“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.”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
15 July 2003exact date
Barcelonaattested“Among his closest friends were the novelists Rodrigo Fresán and Enrique Vila-Matas; Fresán's tribute included the statement that "Roberto emerged as a writer at a time when Latin America no longer believed in utopias, when paradise had b…”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
15 July 2003exact date
Vall d'Hebron University Hospitalattested“Among his closest friends were the novelists Rodrigo Fresán and Enrique Vila-Matas; Fresán's tribute included the statement that "Roberto emerged as a writer at a time when Latin America no longer believed in utopias, when paradise had b…”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
15 July 2003exact date
Fresattested“Among his closest friends were the novelists Rodrigo Fresán and Enrique Vila-Matas; Fresán's tribute included the statement that "Roberto emerged as a writer at a time when Latin America no longer believed in utopias, when paradise had b…”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
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1973year
Mexicomentioned“A key episode in Bolaño's life, mentioned in different forms in several of his works, occurred in 1973, when he left Mexico for Chile to "help build the revolution" by supporting the democratic socialist government of Salvador Allende.”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
1973 to 2009period
Chilementioned“Nevertheless, since 2009, Bolaño's Mexican friends from that era have cast doubts on whether he was even in Chile in 1973 at all.”source: Wikipedia: Roberto Bolaño
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