Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Zafón was born in Barcelona in 1964. Although his parents weren’t particularly artistic, his father loved books and always stressed that literature was very important. He went to military school and later studied Information Sciences at university. He began his career working in publicity, and eventually rose to become creative director of an important Barcelona publicity agency, but in 1992 he gave up this job to pursue literature. His first novels were directed towards children and published throughout the 1990s, until he wrote his first novel for adults, The Shadow of the Wind, in 2001. He has since written two sequels, The Angel’s Game and The Prisoner of Heaven. Zafón lives in Barcelona.