Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 55, dies

By Aritz Parra and Andrew Dalton
Updated June 20 2020 - 10:26am, first published 10:23am
Celebrated Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon has died at the age of 55, reportedly after from cancer.
Celebrated Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon has died at the age of 55, reportedly after from cancer.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 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. He was 55.

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