WRITER

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Ruiz Zafón has received more than 1,290,289 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the 938th most popular writer (down from 874th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from Spain (down from 267th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Spanish Writer.

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

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.74

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  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 938 out of 7,302. Before him are Thomas Pynchon, Jean de La Bruyère, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Lafcadio Hearn, Ouyang Xiu, and Joyce Carol Oates. After him are Leconte de Lisle, Rustichello da Pisa, Nellie Bly, James Jones, Pierre Larousse, and Rubén Darío.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 30. Before him are Michelle Obama, Courteney Cox, Edi Rama, Gianluca Vialli, Duff McKagan, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. After him are Guillermo del Toro, Tom Morello, Ernesto Valverde, Lenny Kravitz, Courtney Love, and Gitanas Nausėda. Among people deceased in 2020, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 52. Before him are Mirella Freni, Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, Kim Ki-duk, Buck Henry, and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. After him are Joel Schumacher, Brian Dennehy, George Steiner, Ken Hensley, Mary Higgins Clark, and Little Richard.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 298 out of 3,355. Before him are La Belle Otero (1868), Eusebi Güell (1846), Carles Rexach (1947), Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (1626), Isabella, Princess of Asturias (1851), and Telmo Zarra (1921). After him are Yolande of Aragon (1384), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (1877), Manolete (1917), Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (1729), and Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (1029).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Carlos Ruiz Zafón ranks 30. Before him are Luis de Góngora (1561), Antonio Machado (1875), Vicente Aleixandre (1898), Jorge Semprún (1923), Silius Italicus (26), and Abraham Abulafia (1240). After him are Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836), Prudentius (348), Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), and Garcilaso de la Vega (1501).

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