name: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
birth_date: 1964-09-25 00:00:00
death_date: 2020-06-19 00:00:00
genres: Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction
influences: Benito Pérez Galdos, Eduardo Mendoza,  Emilio Salgari, Charles Dickens, Balzac, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Arturo 
avg_rating: 4.19
ratings_count: 1264434
about: Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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.