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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

1964 - 2020

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos rwiθ θaˈfon]; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the 1,091st most popular writer (down from 937th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 298th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Spanish Writer.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is most famous for his novel, The Shadow of the Wind.

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Among writers, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 1,091 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Harriet Jacobs, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ernst Barlach, and James Thomson. After him are Alfred Kubin, Emil Ludwig, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Mimnermus, Marguerite Porete, and B. Traven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 41. Before him are Oleksandr Turchynov, Tom Morello, Salvatore Schillaci, Courteney Cox, Lee Jae-myung, and Gitanas Nausėda. After him are Guillermo del Toro, Chris Cornell, Famke Janssen, Gianluca Vialli, Giuseppe Conte, and Courtney Love. Among people deceased in 2020, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 68. Before him are Mario J. Molina, Brian Dennehy, Geert Hofstede, Mary Higgins Clark, Radomir Antić, and Joel Schumacher. After him are Freeman Dyson, Buck Henry, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Roger Scruton, Lee Kun-hee, and K. C. Jones.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 352 out of 3,355. Before him are César Rodríguez Álvarez (1920), Andoni Zubizarreta (1961), Francisco Largo Caballero (1869), Blanche II of Navarre (1424), Ali ibn Yusuf (1083), and Alfonso V of León (994). After him are Al-Qurtubi (1214), Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1402), Francisco Ferrer (1859), Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado (1643), Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951), and Antonio Soler (1729).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 34. Before him are Prudentius (348), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Silius Italicus (26), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Abraham Abulafia (1240), and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836). After him are Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951), Jorge Semprún (1923), Rosalía de Castro (1837), Bernardino de Sahagún (1499), Joanot Martorell (1415), and Ruy González de Clavijo (1400).

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