Carlos Ruiz Zafón the visionary narrator

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On Friday June Carlos Ruiz Zafón one of the most recognized writers of contemporary literature passed away. His tetralogy The Cemetery of Forgotten Books covers more than pages in which he covers the physical and imaginary geography of Barcelona. Carlos Ruiz Zafón Barcelona ​​ makes one of his literary characters Mr. Sempere say when he takes his son Daniel to discover the secret of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: « Every book every volume that you see has soul. The soul of the one who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived and dreamed of it.

Indeed the legacy of the Barcelona writer is his prose capable of moving young people first and then adults with a style that is difficult to categorize. The historical novel intrigue gothic environments and fantasy weave a careful literary production that has convinced UAE Phone Number millions of readers around the world. Ruiz Zafón who lived in Los Angeles where he worked for the Hollywood industry had gained international prominence with his novel  The Shadow of the Wind winner of numerous awards and considered one of the best books in the Spanish language of the last years. First-rate authors saluted the personality of his literature such as Stephen King while the following installments of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books – The Angel's Game and The Prisoner of Heaven – consecrated Ruiz Zafón as the Dickens of Barcelona ​​according to El Corriere della Sera.



Ruiz Zafón was the son of an insurance agent. As a child he accompanied his father from house to house touring Barcelona over and over again. He spent his childhood in the Sagrada Familia neighborhood and studied at the Jesuit Fathers of Sarrià a building owned by Joan Martorell Antoni Gaudí's teacher. The writer confessed on more than one occasion that his childhood in the city would indelibly mark his vision of the world and his way of narrating. Behind his gaze hides the head of a writer who at the moment he emigrates to Los Angeles begins to use the remembered scenarios to recreate the environments in his novels.