![]() ![]() ![]() He supported himself by, among other things, working as a security guard at a campsite and selling cheap jewellery to tourists visiting the Costa Brava. Uncompromising in his style and critical of authors who sold out to the market, he did not publish a novel until he was 43. The writer, who spent the last part of his life in the Costa Brava region of Spain, died at the age of 50 in 2003. Publication of the books would add to the number of works by Bolaño due to appear over the next few years the English translations of three novels and four collections of stories are already scheduled for the end of 2011. It follows the discovery of another novel, entitled The Third Reich, which was shown to publishers at the Frankfurt book fair in October. The novels apparently came to light when piles of documents, notebooks and diaries left behind by Bolaño were being sifted through. The Wylie Agency, the literary agency, which recently took over the Bolaño estate, declined to comment about the reports. ![]()
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