Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy was born in 1933 in Tennessee. With his debut novel, "The Orchard Keeper" (1955), he won the Faulkner Foundation Award for a first novel. His fifth novel, "Blood Meridian" (1985), considered by many to be his masterpiece, brought him worldwide fame. This was followed by the so-called "Border Trilogy," which includes the novels "All the Pretty Horses" (translated by Alekos Benroubis, 2000), "The Crossing" (translated by Anna Papastavrou, 2003), and "Cities of the Plain" (translated by Alekos Benroubis, 2009). His subsequent books, "No Country for Old Men" (translated by Avgoustos Kortos, 2008) and "The Road" (translated by Avgoustos Kortos, 2007), also achieved great success and were adapted into films. Among other accolades, he has been awarded the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 ("All the Pretty Horses"), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 ("The Road").