| Roberto Ampuero is one of the most popular and most successful Chilean authors of the last few years. He is the creator of a brilliant literary saga featuring a character who renovated the Latin American noir novel: detective Cayetano Brulé, the protagonist of the successful series consisting of the novels Who Killed Christian Kusterman?, Boleros in Havana, The German of Atacama, Appointment at the Azul Profundo , Nighthawks and The case Neruda. Brulé, a Chilean detective of Cuban origin, travels the world investigating cases which often take him to his customary haunts: East Berlin, Havana, Prague, Valparaiso and Mexico. In addition to this series, Ampuero has written Our Green Olive Years, an exceptional portrait of disillusionment with the revolutionary utopias of the 1970s, and the celebrated Stockholm Lovers, among others. A graduate of the prestigious International Writers’Workshop (IWP) of the University of Iowa, he teaches literature and creative writing at this same university. He He has lived in Chile, Cuba, Germany, Sweden, and since 2000 in the United States. |
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| BY ROBERTO AMPUERO |
El caso neruda
NOVEL, 2008 |
Pasiones griegas
NOVEL, 2006 |
La historia como conjetura
NON FICTION , 2006 |
Halcones de la noche
NOVEL, 2005 |
Los amantes de Estocolmo
NOVEL, 2003 |
Cita en el Azul Profundo
NOVEL, 2003 |
La guerra de los duraznos
NOVEL FOR YOUNG READERS, 2001 |
Nuestros años verde olivo
NOVEL, 1999 |
El hombre golondrina
SHORT STORIES , 1997 |
El aleman de Atacama
NOVEL , 1996 |
Boleros en La Habana
NOVEL , 1994 |
Quien mato a Christian Kustermann?
NOVEL , 1993 |
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