Carlos Ruiz Zafón
29 workspublishing since 2004
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona, 25 September 1964 – Los Angeles, 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist. He worked in advertising from the age of nineteen and settled in Los Angeles in 1993, writing novels and film screenplays there. He began with young-adult fiction — The Prince of Mist (1993), The Midnight Palace and The Watcher in the Shadows — followed by Marina (1999). The Shadow of the Wind (2001) opened the Cemetery of Forgotten Books cycle, set in a gothic, labyrinthine Barcelona where lost books are given shelter; The Angel's Game (2008), The Prisoner of Heaven (2011) and The Labyrinth of the Spirits (2016) completed it. He wrote in Spanish throughout.
