British writer and screenwriter Nicholas Evans, author of the best-selling novel adapted for the cinema The Horse Whispererdied of a heart attack at the age of 72, his agent announced on Monday.
If his death occurred on August 9, it was not made public until almost a week later in a press release: “United Agents is very sad to announce the passing of celebrated author Nicholas Evans who died suddenly on Tuesday, following a heart attack».
Author Nicholas Evans, famed for writing The Horse Whisperer, has died aged 72 following a heart attack.https://t.co/7R4yu9QrLz
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Born in central England in 1950, he studied law in Oxford before becoming a journalist, for the local press and then television. He is best known for his first novel which met with enormous success, The Horse Whisperer (The Horse Whisperer), published in 1995 and sold fifteen million copies worldwide.
The novel tells the story of a young girl seriously injured in a riding accident, during which her best friend is killed and her animal mutilated. To cure her, her mother decides on a last-ditch expedition to Montana, where the “whisperer» Tom Booker who has the reputation of treating the most difficult horses.
The book was adapted for the cinema by Robert Redford, at the same time the director, the actor and the producer of this hymn to the great outdoors, to virgin nature and to horses. Released in 1998, the film with Scarlett Johansson and Kristin Scott Thomas, was nominated for the Oscars, without winning any prizes.