Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish writer. He was born in 1964 in Barcelona. He is the author of "The Shadow of the Wind", a success of recent literature. In June 2008, more than ten million copies of this novel were sold all the world.
Carlos studied at the Jesuit college in Sarrià and then he studied journalism. After that, he worked as a creative director for an important agency in Barcelona, but in 1992 he decided to leave his job and start to write books.
His first book was "The Prince of Mist", a fantasy, horror and adventure novel. It won the Juvenile Literature award of Edebé. With the money which he won, he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1994, something that he had wanted to do since he was a child.
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Ruiz Zafon is the only contemporary Spanish author who has reached a megaseller status. A megaseller is a term that classifies the titles that have sold over ten million copies.
Zafón remembers that as a child, he was always writing. "What had always interested me had been language, codes, systems, structures — I had wanted to figure out how these things had worked," he said. "Just with ink and paper you could create stories and worlds and universes."
Carlos Ruíz Zafón.
