Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

Published by Picador, 2026-04-07

"Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining." --The Washington Post

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.

A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, Nazi Literature in the Americas is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece that brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.