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 ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón owns side-by-side apartments in Beverly Hills. One is home. The other he calls his “Dragon’s Cave.” In the Dragon's Cave, the international mega-bestselling author of ...

By Raphael Minder MADRID — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose mystery novel “The Shadow of the Wind” became one of the best-selling Spanish books of all time, died on Friday at his home in Santa ...

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The celebrated and world-renowned Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón has died in Los Angeles, aged 55. He had been ill for several years with cancer. His Barcelona-based mystery The Shadow of the ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the bestselling novel “The Shadow of the Wind” and one of the world’s most popular Spanish writers, has died at the age of 55. His Spanish publisher ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MADRID (AP) — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose wildly popular 2001 novel “The Shadow of the Wind” led to three sequels ...

In this Wednesday, May 26, 2004 photo, writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon poses in the Sant Felip Neri Square in the center of Barcelona, Spain. He got noticed in the early 1990s with the publication of the ...

MADRID (AP) — 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, has died.