Carlos Ruiz Zafon, writer of the bestselling novel The Shadow of the Wind and just one of the world’s most well-liked Spanish writers, has died. He was 55.
His Spanish publisher, Planeta, mentioned in a information launch Friday that Zafon died in Los Angeles. It gave no induce of demise, but Zafon was regarded to have most cancers.
A tweet from the publisher included a estimate from The Shadow of the Wind, which acquired Zafon international renown: “Each individual book, every single quantity you see, has a soul. The soul of the particular person who wrote it and the soul of those who go through it and lived it and dreamed about it.”
Born in Barcelona in 1964, Zafon labored as a publicist just before starting to be a comprehensive-time author.
He acquired discovered in the early nineties with the publication of the first quantity of the Mist Trilogy, together with The Prince of Mist, at first published as a youthful adult novel.
The Shadow of the Wind, a literary thriller from 2001, is the first in his series The Cemetery of Overlooked Books.
The novel, established in Barcelona, recounts the hunt for a mysterious writer, mingling truth, fantasy and love. It quickly grew to become a around the world bestseller. The Angel’s Dream was a further sturdy seller in the series.
His will work have been translated into far more than 50 languages, according to Planeta, and have gained quite a few prizes.
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