American writer Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road and wrote the book No Country for Old Men, which was made into a very successful film.
McCarthy’s oeuvre is not large. He has twelve novels, several plays and screenplays to his name. But his works, most of them translated into Dutch, are highly praised.
McCarthy’s books usually focus on young men who travel through desolate areas and encounter violence. Connoisseurs consider Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) as McCarthy’s pinnacle. The book was included on Time magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
No Country for Old Men from 2005 also deals a lot with violence. The book is about a man who is pursued by a hitman and was made into a film two years later by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. The film received four Oscars.
McCarthy was given the name Charles at birth in 1933. He attended the University of Tennessee for two terms, but never completed his studies. He did, however, publish his first stories at that time. His last two books were released in 2022.
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