2023-06-13 20:46:42
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Writer Cormac McCarthy dies aged 89
He was one of the most important contemporary American authors. Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89.
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He was 89 years old: the American writer Cormac McCarthy.
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His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted into a film by the Coen brothers.
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The film won four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh).
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His book The Road was also made into a film. McCarthy was known for his explicit depictions of violence and his unique writing style, characterized by a sparing use of punctuation.
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McCarthy is also known for his Border trilogy with the novels “All the Beautiful Horses” from 1992, “Border Crossers” from 1994 and “Land of the Free” from 1998 (US publication years).
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The US bestselling author Cormac McCarthy is dead. The one for the dark Romane wie «No Country for Old Men» (No Country for Old Men) and “The Road” (Die Strasse) well-known writer died Tuesday at the age of 89 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to the publishing group Penguin Random House. His son, John McCarthy, has also confirmed his death. So he died a natural death.
Author Stephen King expressed his sadness via short message service Twitter and described McCarthy as “perhaps the greatest American writer of my time”. McCarthy “changed the path of literature,” said Nihar Malaviya, interim director of Penguin Random House. “For 60 years he has shown an abiding passion for his art and for exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word.”
The writer, who used a typewriter to the end, was considered one of the greatest US contemporary authors. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 1933, the writer has won numerous awards throughout his career. In 2006 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Road, a post-apocalyptic story about a father and son on a grueling journey to survive.
Throughout his writing career, McCarthy gave so few interviews and so seldom appeared publicly that it even made headlines recently when some old local newspaper interviews of him from the ’60s and ’70s surfaced again.
“No Country for Old Men” film adaptation received four Oscars
Nor can he explain how his novels come about. “It’s like jazz. They create it as they play, and maybe only those who do it can understand that.” He gets ideas that he then lets develop in his head before eventually getting the urge to write them down. “My hands then do the thinking. It’s not a conscious process.” Many of his works are hard to beat when it comes to horror and atrocities. “There is simply no life without bloodshed.”
Several of his novels have been made into films, including No Country for Old Men. The Coen brothers’ gory neo-western from 2007, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, won four Oscars.
McCarthy is also known for his Border trilogy with the novels “All the Beautiful Horses” from 1992, “Border Crossers” from 1994 and “Land of the Free” from 1998 (US publication years). His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965.
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