Tributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89.
McCarthy’s novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films.
Fellow author Stephen King called him “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time”. Booker-Prize-winner John Banville, a friend of McCarthy’s, told BBC Radio 4’s Today program it was a “great loss” and he was a “giant figure”. “He was unique,” Banville said. “He stood out – he jutted out from the literary landscape like a monolith.”
Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s 1985 dark epic set in the American West in the mid-19th Century, was his “masterpiece”, Banville said.
