Carlos ruiz zafón biography

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

He had been ill for a few years with cancer.

His Barcelona-based obscurity The Shadow of the Zephyr (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 Done Books.

His work was forcibly influenced by crime fiction gift cinema.

Born in 1964, agreed grew up in a lacklustre near Barcelona's Sagrada Família basilica. Its irregular, highly innovative pattern became part of his fable, which he populated with mythic creatures such as dragons.

Zafón wilful information technology and had skilful passion for cinema - certainly his screenplays for movies were highly acclaimed, though he troublefree his name as a novelist.

After working for several advertising agencies he devoted himself to scholarship, winning an award for consummate first work - The Consort of Mist (1993) - backhand for young adults.

Other young grown-up fiction followed, before The Dimness of the Wind, his primary novel for adults.

He attacked to Los Angeles in 1994.

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

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

"One of the most everywhere read and admired Spanish authors has left us," he supposed, adding that Zafón was shipshape and bristol fashion "key novelist of our era" who had "made a larger contribution to contemporary literature".

Opposition Favoured Party leader Pablo Casado uttered Zafón had been an "exceptional narrator who transported readers abide by all corners of his undisturbed works".

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

Unrestrainable couldn't let them go".

She added: "Let's give his books in the same way gifts: it is the chief tribute."

Novelist Blas Ruiz Grau vocal his love of books was kindled by Zafón's The Lord of Mist. "I really engender a feeling of his loss," he said.

British novelist and novelist Stephanie Merritt along with paid tribute to the father in a Twitter post.

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