english writer Nicholas Evans The author of the bestselling “The Horse Whisperer” has died aged 72 after suffering a heart attack, his agency announced on Monday.
A statement released this Monday noted that Evans is also known for his work as a journalist and television writer. “he died suddenly” due to heart failure last Tuesday.
Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, he rose to fame in 1995 with his ‘Novel’.man whispering to horses‘, a work that topped the sales charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
The success of this book led American actor Robert Redford to direct a 1998 film of the same name starring himself. Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.
This Novel It was followed by Land of the Wolves (1998), “Through the Fire” (1999), “When the Abyss Parted” (2005), and “The Man Who Wanted to Be Brave” (2010).
Evans began his professional career in letters as a newspaper reporter in the late 1970s. Evening Chronicle In the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it later made the leap to television.
In this environment he specializes American politics and foreign relations Overall, this led him to cover the war in Lebanon just before he got into fiction with “The Horse Whisperer”.
His experience in Beirut and in international politics also helped him a lot in writing his latest work.”The man who wants to be braveAs Evans explained in an interview with Efe in 2011, he discussed family secrets and the “effects of war and the human cost.”
It took Evans several years to finish this book, because in 2008 he swallowed some and got drunk. poisonous mushrooms Caught with his singer-songwriter wife Charlotte Gordon Cummingand his brother-in-law, Alastair, at his cottage in Scotland.
The author explained what he ate. mushrooms however, the next morning he began to feel unwell and quickly realized that they had eaten the poisonous mushrooms.
Evans and his wife near death, however, the author received a kidney transplant in 2011.