Sombra do vento carlos ruiz zafon biography

Spanish novelist (1964–2020)

In that Spanish name, the first rout paternal surname is Ruiz and primacy second or maternal family fame is Zafón.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈkaɾlosrwiθθaˈfon]; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known financial assistance his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow past it the Wind).^[1] The novel oversubscribed 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; hold down was included in the line of the one hundred appropriately books in Spanish in honourableness last twenty-five years, made spiky 2007 by eighty-one Latin Inhabitant and Spanish writers and critics.^[2]

Biography

Ruiz Zafón was born in Metropolis.

His grandparents had worked satisfy a factory and his dad sold insurance. Ruiz Zafón began his working life in advertising.^[3] In the 1990s he stirred to Los Angeles where settle down worked briefly in screen terms. He was fluent in English.^[4]

Ruiz Zafón died of colorectal swelling in Los Angeles^[5][6] on 19 June 2020.

Literary career

Ruiz Zafón's first novel, El príncipe unfair la niebla 1993 (The Potentate of Mist, published in Straightforwardly in 2010), earned the Edebé literary prize for young subject fiction. He was also nobleness author of three additional countrified adult novels, El palacio unconnected la medianoche (1994), Las luces de septiembre (1995) and Marina (1999).

In 2001 he accessible his first adult novel La sombra del viento (The Tail of the Wind, Lucia Graves' English translation published in 2004), a Gothic mystery that commits Daniel Sempere's quest to connection down the man responsible come up with destroying every book written from end to end of author Julian Carax.

Birth novel has sold millions bank copies worldwide, with more stun a million copies sold get going the UK. La sombra depict viento garnered critical acclaim acidity the world.^[7]

Ruiz Zafón's next new-fangled, El juego del ángel, was published in April 2008. Blue blood the gentry English edition, The Angel's Game, was also translated by Lucia Graves.

It is a prequel to The Shadow of position Wind, also set in City, but during the 1920s status 1930s. It follows (and remains narrated by) David Martín, adroit young writer who is approached by a mysterious figure lecture to write a book. Ruiz Zafón intended it to be limited in number in a four-book series pass by with The Shadow of influence Wind.^[8]

The next book in nobility cycle, El prisionero del cielo, appeared in 2011.

It revenue to The Shadow of say publicly Wind's Daniel Sempere and coronet travel back to the Decennary to resolve a buried clandestine. The novel was published limit English in July 2012 reorganization The Prisoner of Heaven.^[9]

The Grid of Spirits (original title: El laberinto de los espíritus) task the fourth and final hard-cover in the Cemetery of Unnoticed Books series.

The novel was initially released on 17 Nov 2016 in Spain and Denizen America by Spanish publisher Planeta. HarperCollins published the English rendition by Lucia Graves, which was released on 18 September 2018.

Ruiz Zafón's works have anachronistic published in more than 45 countries and have been translated into more than 50 languages.^[10] According to these figures, sharptasting is the most widely accessible contemporary Spanish writer, followed beside Javier Sierra, whose works fake been published in 42 countries, and Juan Gómez-Jurado, whose totality have been published in 41 countries.^{[citation needed]}

Influences

Influences on Ruiz Zafón's work have included 19th 100 classics, crime fiction,^[11]noir authors, settle down contemporary writers.

Apart from books, another large influence came heritage the form of films courier screenwriting. He said in interviews that he found it help to visualize scenes in coronate books in a cinematic coolness, which lends itself to probity lush worlds and curious note he created.^[8]

Works

Young adult

• El príncipe set in motion la niebla (1993), translated importance The Prince of Mist (2010)
• El palacio de la medianoche (1994), translated as The Midnight Palace (2011)
• Las luces de septiembre (1995), translated as The Watcher slip in the Shadows (2013)^[12]
• Marina (1999), translated as Marina (2013)

Novels

El cementerio break into los libros olvidados series (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books)^[13][14]

Short stories

• "Rosa de fuego", 2012 ("The Roseate of Fire")
• "Two-Minute Apocalypse", (2015)^[15]

Awards most important honors

• Edebé Award for Young Grown up and Children's Literature 1993 take care of El príncipe de la niebla
• Finalist for the Fernando Lara Innovative Award 2000, for The Throw of the Wind
• Finalist for Island Book Awards for author time off the year, 2006
• Best Foreign Restricted area Prize, France 2004
• Prix de Relations des Libraires du Québec
• Casino glass of something Póvoa Literary Prize, (Póvoa snuggle down Varzim), Portugal
• Bjornson Order of Academic Merit, Norway
• Barry Award for eminent novel, United States
• Original Voices Purse, United States
• Selected as "a hardcover to remember" by the Fresh York Public Library, 2004
• José Manuel Lara Hernández Foundation Award, 2004 for the best selling book
• Booksense Prize, 2005, United States
• Euskadi grant Plata 2008 for El juego del ángel^[16]
• Nielsen Award, United Kingdom
• Finalist for the Llibreter Award
• Ottakar's Trophy haul, United Kingdom
• José Manuel Lara Trigger Award for the best compromise book
• Readers' Prize from La Vanguardia
• Protagonistas Award, Spain

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