He achieved worldwide fame with the film adaptation of the western thriller “No Country for Old Men”. The award-winning US writer Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89.
The US writer Cormac McCarthy, author of bestsellers such as “The Road” or “No Country for Old Men”, is dead. McCarthy died at the age of 89 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, said his Agent of the news agency dpa.
The button publishers and John McCarthy, the writer’s son, also confirmed McCarthy’s death.
Numerous awards – including the Pulitzer Prize
Writer Stephen King expressed his sadness via short message service Twitter and described McCarthy as “perhaps the greatest American writer of my time”.
McCarthy is one of the most successful and important US authors of his generation and has received numerous awards, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Global fame through “No Country for Old Men”
McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and grew up as the son of a lawyer with five siblings in Tennessee. He published around a dozen novels, many of which were also made into films in Hollywood.
The film adaptation of the western thriller “No Country for Old Men”, which won four Oscars in 2008, made him world famous. After his world bestseller “Die Straße” in 2006, McCarthy, who only rarely appeared in public or gave interviews, did not publish a new novel for around 16 years – but he did publish two last year: “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris”. .