What profession did Gay Talese and Roberto Bolaño share?
Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (] ; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) 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", which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages". "The New York Times" described him as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation".
Piero Boitani Piero Boitani is an Italian literary critic. Born in Rome in 1947, he received his Ph.D. from Cambridge while teaching there and has taught in the Universities of Pescara and Perugia. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the "Sapienza" University of Rome and teaches at the Gregorian University and at the University of Italian Switzerland.