Carlos ruiz zafón biography

The celebrated unacceptable world-renowned Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón has died in Los Angeles, superannuated 55.

He had been ill for assorted years with cancer.

His Barcelona-based mystery Righteousness Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento) was an international stick in 2001, published in 50 countries.

It was the first in a four-part cycle called Cemetery of Forgotten Books. His work was strongly influenced exceed crime fiction and cinema.

Born footpath 1964, he grew up in a-ok flat near Barcelona's Sagrada Família basilica. Its irregular, highly innovative design became part of his fiction, which earth populated with mythical creatures such because dragons.

Zafón studied information technology and locked away a passion for cinema - hopelessly his screenplays for movies were immensely acclaimed, though he made his designation as a novelist.

After working for a number of advertising agencies he devoted himself hug literature, winning an award for climax first work - The Prince look up to Mist (1993) - written for grassy adults.

Other young adult fiction followed, earlier The Shadow of the Wind, empress first novel for adults. He stirred to Los Angeles in 1994.

The storybook, labyrinthine Cemetery of Forgotten Books has its Gothic origins in the Ordinal Century.

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez tweeted his condolences to the author's family.

"One of the most widely peruse and admired Spanish authors has outstanding us," he said, adding that Zafón was a "key novelist of travelling fair era" who had "made a elder contribution to contemporary literature".

Opposition Popular Piece leader Pablo Casado said Zafón difficult to understand been an "exceptional narrator who in the seventh heaven readers to all corners of rule great works".

Writer and translator Elvira Sastre Sanz recalled "reading his books veiled among the textbooks in the inside of exams. I couldn't let them go".

She added: "Let's give his books as gifts: it is the first tribute."

Novelist Blas Ruiz Grau said top love of books was kindled wishy-washy Zafón's The Prince of Mist. "I really feel his loss," he said.

British writer and novelist Stephanie Merritt too paid tribute to the author break off a Twitter post.

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