Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy dies at 89

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

"Cormac McCarthy, perhaps the greatest American novelist of my time, has passed away at the age of 89. He was full of experience and created an excellent work. I am sorry for his passing," King wrote on social media.

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

His works adapted to the cinema include 'All the beautiful horses', 'The Highway' and 'No country for old men', the latter film received four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture, which was brought to the screen by the Coen brothers with which Javier Bardem won the Oscar for best supporting actor.

With 'The Highway' (2006) he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and with 'All the Beautiful Horses' (1992), a reflective western, he won the National Book Award.