The novel, set in Barcelona, recounts the hunt for a mysterious author, mingling reality, fantasy and love. “The Shadow of the Wind,” a literary thriller from 2001, is the first in his series “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books.” He got noticed in the early 1990s with the publication of the first volume of the “Mist Trilogy,” including “The Prince of Mist,” initially published as a young adult novel. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed about it.”īorn in Barcelona in 1964, Zafón worked as a publicist before becoming a full-time writer. It gave no cause of death, but Zafón was known to have cancer.Ī tweet from the publisher included a quote from “The Shadow of the Wind,” which earned Zafón international renown: “Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. His Spanish publisher, Planeta, said in a news release Friday that Zafón died in Los Angeles. MADRID (AP) - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the best-selling novel “The Shadow of the Wind” and one of the world’s most popular Spanish writers, has died.
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