Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89

MADRID, 13 (EUROPA PRESS)

The American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy died this Tuesday at the age of 89 in his home in Santa Fe (New Mexico), as reported by the Knopf publishing house in a message on social networks and also by his colleague Stephen King.

“Cormac McCarthy, perhaps the greatest American writer of my time, has died at the age of 89. He was full of experience and created an excellent work. I am sorry for his death,” King wrote on social media.

The American writer’s novels, which explore a desolate world of violence and outcasts, have won several literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

His works adapted for cinema include All the Fair Horses, The Highway and No Country for Old Men. The latter film received four Oscars, including Best Picture, brought to the screen by the Coen brothers, with which Javier Bardem won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Fiction with The Highway (2006) and a National Book Award for All the Beautiful Horses (1992), a thoughtful western.