Ruiz Zafón was born in the city of Barcelona. Growing up in Spain, he began his working life by making money in advertising. His grandparents had worked in a factory and his father sold insurance. In the 1990s Ruiz Zafón moved to Los Angeles where he worked briefly in screen writing. He was fluent in English.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a famous Spanish author. When he published The Shadow of the Wind in two thousand and one he did not know that it will an international success. Lucia Graves translated the novel into English in 2004 and since that The Sh...
