American writer Cormac McCarthy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for “The Road”, died at the age of 89

American writer Cormac McCarthy, who found success late in life with his iconic novels, such as The road, died Tuesday, June 13, at the age of 89, of natural causes, announced his publisher Alfred A. Knopf. He died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the publisher said.

Chronicler of Appalachian America and the dark and cruel “Far West”, he experienced a late success, reinforced by Hollywood. It will be first Such pretty horsesbrought to the screen in 2000 with Matt Damon, then No, this country is not for the old man (No Country for old men), by the Coen brothers, who won four Oscars in 2008. Cormac McCarthy also won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2007, for The roada novel published a year earlier, which made the story of a wandering of a father and a son in a country ravaged by a cataclysm of unknown origin.

Sixteen years later The roadhe returns in 2022 with The passenger and its prequel Stella Maris published immediately. In this story that takes place ten years before The passengerMcCarthy takes for the first time a woman, schizophrenic, for main character.