Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( born September 25, 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia ) is a Spanish writer.

Life

Carlos Ruiz Zafón was born in Barcelona and grew up there. He attended the Jesuit school Sarria ( Col · legi de Sant Ignasi ). It has its seat in a Gothic castle located in the town of red brick, with towers and secret passages that have stimulated his imagination and the desire for storytelling after his statement.

He first worked in Barcelona in an advertising agency, in 1994 moved to Los Angeles and focused entirely on writing. In addition to his work on novels, he has worked as a screenwriter and journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País and La Vanguardia.

Appeared in 1993 The Prince of Mist, of which more than 150,000 copies were sold. After three more youth books appeared from his pen. His fifth book, The Shadow of the Wind, was published in 2001 and received in Spain in the publication, although little attention, but was still in a short time became a bestseller and was for weeks on the Spanish bestseller lists. In Spain Ruiz Zafon was so celebrated as the literary sensation of the year 2002. Also in Germany, the novel quickly became known and managed in part to the number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list. 2004, the publication rights for the novel have been sold to over 20 countries, including France, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, the USA and Poland. From La Vanguardia, a major daily newspaper in Barcelona, ​​The Shadow of the Wind was voted Book of the Year 2002.

He also was a scholarship guest at Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf.

Awards

Works

• Trilogía de la niebla (fog trilogy) El Príncipe de la niebla. Edebé, Barcelona 1993, ISBN 0-06-172435-1 (Eng. The Prince of Mist from the Spanish by Ulrike Schuldes dtv, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-70399-7, .. Edition, from Spanish by Lisa Grüneisen Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-86001-2 ).
• El palacio de la medianoche. Edebé, Barcelona 1994, ISBN 0-06-128437-8 (Eng. The Midnight Palace. Translated from Spanish by Lisa Green iron. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-86012-8 ).
• Las luces de septiembre. Edebé, Barcelona 1995, ISBN 0-06-156557-1 (Eng. The Dark Guardian. Translated from Spanish by Lisa Green iron. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-85388-5 ).

• La sombra del viento. Planeta, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-08-05793-6 (Eng. The Shadow of the Wind. Translated by Peter Schwaar. Island, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-458-17444-3 ).
• El juego del ángel. Planeta, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-08-08118-0 (Eng. The Angel's Game. Translated by Peter Schwaar. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-095400-8 ).
• El Prisionero del Cielo. Planeta, Barcelona 2011, ISBN 978-84-0810582-4 (German Prisoner of Heaven. Translated by Peter Schwaar. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-095402-2 ).