The American writer died on Tuesday, at his home in Santa Fe, USA Cormac McCarthy according to the Washington Post

American novelist, playwright and screenwriter died aged 89 (20 July 1933).

His death was announced by his publisher Penguin Random House, while no specific cause of death was given.

Most of his novels have become commercial and artistic successes, among them Blood Meridian (1985), which earned a place on Time magazine’s list of the 100 best books in English. language from 1923 to the present day”, and the novel “The Road” (“The Road” – 2006), which won the Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) and the “James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction”.

“The Road” and the “No homeland for the dying” (“No Country for Old Men” ) have also been adapted into the cinema. In 2012 he wrote a screenplay, which in 2013 director Ridley Scott made into a movie, entitled “The Counselor”.