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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon, whose book "The Shadow of the Wind" sold more than 15 million copies, has died of cancer aged 55 in Los Angeles, his publishing house said on ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón was frequently called the most-read Spanish author since Cervantes. His breakout 2001 novel The Shadow of the Wind follows Daniel, a young boy in Barcelona just after World War II, ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses the way he utilizes "modern narrative technologies" to re-tool the traditional novel and create a work filled with history, terror and ...

On the dust jacket of the Spanish edition of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s monumental final novel, “The Labyrinth of the Spirits,” the Catalan master storyteller, stares into the distance, as if he’s lost in ...

In The Angel’s Game, Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s prequel to his mega-best-selling The Shadow of the Wind, a young writer in early 20th century Barcelona finds that he may have sold his ...

Long before his manifestly unfair death from cancer in 2020 at the age of 55, the Spanish conjurer of wonder and mystery Carlos Ruiz Zafón was already thinking about what would happen with his ...

The author Carlos Ruiz Zafón offers a travel guide to his hometown with a darker spin on some familiar spots. By Lauren Sloss In Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s Barcelona, the well-trodden capital of Spain’s ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón has attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers. Here, he expresses his love of "low" genre writing, his distrust of the overtly literary writing of ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose wildly popular 2001 novel “The Shadow of the Wind” led to three sequels and made him one of the world’s most beloved Spanish authors, died June 19 in Los Angeles. He was 55.