Agree - it feels a bit of stretch to position Bolano as a Chilean writer.

Volodia Teitelboim, 91, Chilean writer and communist activist, cancer.

Rodolfo Oroz (1895-1997) was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist.

Gonzalo Millán (1947-2006) was a Chilean writer and poet.

Julio Barrenechea (1910-1979) was a Chilean writer, politician, and diplomat.

The Pinochet years haunt these stories by a Chilean writer who died in 2003.

Chilean writers have depicted as an illness a condition of numbing, if not quite smiling, acquiescence.

The mission was a welcome morale-booster for Chilean writers as a demonstration of solidarity with the cause of intellectual freedom.

He said they, like many Chilean writers, had "a dangerous populist heroism in their heads" and "dream of a war to destroy Pinochet."

Alfonso Calderón, 78, Chilean writer and poet, heart attack.