Increasingly, cross-cultural and international narratives have pervaded into the Anglo-American cultural consciousness, with the global novel and translated novel assuming a more and more prominent position in the American literary landscape. Bolaño is perhaps more widely read in English translation than in Latin America, where authors like Horacio Castellanos Moya accuse him of not being national enough, or of playing in too much to Anglo-American sensibilities. My project will examine Roberto Bolaño’s place in this landscape of the global translated novel, analyzing his artist protagonists as migrants and vagabonds who use the process of artistic creation to escape the political and economic disasters of their nations of origins. I will then analyze the position of these artist-migrant protagonists within the context of Anglo-American readership of Latin American authors, arguing that the history of domination and exchange between Anglo-America and Latin America informs Bolaño’s narratives and their reception.