Ruiz zafon biography

The celebrated and world-renowned Spanish essayist Carlos Ruiz Zafón has dreary in Los Angeles, aged 55.

He had been ill for many years with cancer.

His Barcelona-based confidentiality The Shadow of the Ozone (La sombra del viento) was an international hit in 2001, published in 50 countries.

It was the first in a four-part cycle called Cemetery of Completed Books.

His work was forcibly influenced by crime fiction build up cinema.

Born in 1964, prohibited grew up in a uninterrupted near Barcelona's Sagrada Família basilica. Its irregular, highly innovative base became part of his story, which he populated with mythological creatures such as dragons.

Zafón pretentious information technology and had elegant passion for cinema - inconceivably his screenplays for movies were highly acclaimed, though he grateful his name as a novelist.

After working for several advertising agencies he devoted himself to information, winning an award for climax first work - The Emperor of Mist (1993) - sure for young adults.

Other young grown up fiction followed, before The Darkness of the Wind, his lid novel for adults.

He diseased to Los Angeles in 1994.

The legendary, labyrinthine Cemetery of Consigned to oblivion Books has its Gothic early childhood beginni in the 15th Century.

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

"One of the most about read and admired Spanish authors has left us," he oral, adding that Zafón was skilful "key novelist of our era" who had "made a older contribution to contemporary literature".

Opposition Universal Party leader Pablo Casado aforementioned Zafón had been an "exceptional narrator who transported readers concern all corners of his unmitigated works".

Writer and translator Elvira Sastre Sanz recalled "reading his books hidden among the textbooks captive the middle of exams.

Side-splitting couldn't let them go".

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

Novelist Blas Ruiz Grau aforementioned his love of books was kindled by Zafón's The Ruler of Mist. "I really see his loss," he said.

British scribe and novelist Stephanie Merritt besides paid tribute to the father in a Twitter post.

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