The Labyrinth Of The Spirits
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780062668691
First entered: 22nd, Sep 2018
Number of weeks: 1
Book Summary
Authors
Name: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Hometown: Barcelona
Born: Sep, 1964
About the author:
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist. Born in Barcelona in 1964, he has lived in Los Ángeles, United States, since 1994, and works as a scriptwriter aside from writing novels.
His first novel, El príncipe de la niebla (The Prince of Mist, 1993), earned the Edebé literary prize for young adult fiction. He is also the author of three more young-adult novels, El palacio de la medianoche (1994), Las luces de septiembre (1995) and Marina (1999).
In 2001 he published the novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind), his first 'adult' novel, which has sold millions of copies worldwide. Since its publication, La sombra del viento has garnered critical acclaim around the world and has won numerous international awards. Ruiz Zafón's works have been published in more than 40 countries and have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Name: Lucia Graves
Hometown: Devon, England
Born: Jul, 1943
About the author:
Lucia Graves was born in England in 1943, but was taken to Mallorca by her parents in 1946, after the end of WWII. She studied in Switzerland, England and Spain, and graduated in Modern Languages from St. Anne’s College, Oxford. In 1967 she married a Catalan musician and settled in Spain, living mainly in Barcelona. They had three daughters. Lucia currently lives in London with her second husband.
She has had a successful career as a literary translator, translating much of the work of her father, the writer Robert Graves, as well as the works of other authors, such as Anais Nin and Katherine Mansfield. In addition to her talks, articles, and reviews, she has written many pop-music lyrics. In 1995 she edited The Complete Short Stories of Robert Graves.
Her first book, A Woman Unknown: Voices from a Spanish life, was published in 1999, in the UK. It has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, Dutch and French and ha also appeared in the USA. The Memory House, her first novel, was published in Spain a La Casa de la Memoria (1999).