His novel sold 15 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
It was his first novel and it became a true mass phenomenon. It was very hard not to see someone with a copy of ‘The Man Who Whispered Horses’ in 1995. A success that multiplied three years later when Robert Redford directed the film version after paying three million pounds for his film rights. The culprit for this success was journalist and writer Nicholas Evans, who died of heart failure on August 9 at the age of 72, according to his agency reported Monday.
Despite his law studies at Oxford, Evans (Bromsgrove, United Kingdom, 1950) started out as a journalist in the Evening Chronicle newsroom in Newcastle in the 1970s, before making the leap to television. There he specialized in American politics and international affairs. He came in the eighties to report on the war in Lebanon. An experience that inspired what is his latest novel, ‘The Man Who Wanted to Be Brave’ (2010).
In the 1990s, after working as a screenwriter, he decided to write his first novel starring a man (Redford in the film version) who curiously cares for horses. A mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her daughter (a very young Scarlett Johansson) come to his ranch in Montana to try to recover their horse after an accident.
Evans’ novel sold 15 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages. The film grossed nearly $187 million when its budget was not $14 million nearly 25 years ago. After ‘The Man Who Whispered Horses’ Evans published ‘Land of Wolves’ (1998), ‘Through the Fire’ (1999) and ‘When the Abyss Separates’ (2005).
Source: La Verdad
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