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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

20th June 2022

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, who was frequently described as the most-read Spanish author since Cervantes, died in 2020 at his home in Los Angeles,  He had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2018.

Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, tweeted: “We have lost one of the world’s most read and most admired Spanish writers. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, a key novelist of our epoch, made a significant contribution to modern literature.”

Calling him “one of the best contemporary novelists”, his Spanish publisher, Planeta, quoted from his most famous book, The Shadow of the Wind, a literary thriller about a library of obscure titles: “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.”

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