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Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), True Tales of American Life (2001), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), 4 3 2 1 (2017), and Bloodbath Nation (2023). His books…
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entertainment · American writer and film director (1947–2024) · screenwriter · film director · linguist · translator · novelist · poet · essayist · university teacher · autobiographer · writer · also Paul Auster, Paul Benjamin, Paul Queen, Paul Benjamin Auster, Auster
Born 3 February 1947 · Died 30 April 2024 · Q214642
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is somebody torn between his gift -- which is literary -- and something in him that is constantly pushing him out into the world to make a real difference in a concrete way.
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2026· 21 entries
“is somebody torn between his gift -- which is literary -- and something in him that is constantly pushing him out into the world to make a real difference in a concrete way.”
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“I have an amazing capacity to hold the stuff. It shocks me.”
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“and I realize now that it is very deep. Instead of healing me as I thought it would, the act of writing has kept this wound open. . . . Instead of burying my father for me, these words have kept him alive, perhaps more so than ever.”
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“And because he is a dog, it became possible to express very pure, intense emotions that we all feel.”
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“probably once owned by a banker. Yes, I think a banker lived in this house.”
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“When I had no money, I used to have to think about it more.”
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“is currently finding himself - ask me again in a couple of years”
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“For me, it took about, oh, I don”
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“s appeal largely lies in his storytelling. This is why his first two screenplays, Smoke and Blue in the Face were successful, with their cleverly and rather charmingly interlocking tales of life in Brooklyn, and why his third, the more metaphorical (”
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“There are very few writers I”
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“She was an incredibly independent lady.”
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“is particularly close to my heart”
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Diario Río Negro: La Mujer y el Cine celebra sus 38 años con estrenos internacionales y un documental sobre Siri Hustvedt y Paul Auster
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Cadena 3 Argentina: Festival La Mujer y el Cine: Documental sobre Siri Hustvedt y Paul Auster en su 38ª edición
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Agencia Noticias Argentinas: Festival La Mujer y el Cine: una edición con un documental sobre Siri Hustvedt y Paul Auster
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Stairway to Rock: Lecturas universales: «La música del azar» de Paul Auster
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Reconquista Radios: El Festival La Mujer y el Cine llega a su 38ª edición con un documental sobre Siri Hustvedt y Paul Auster como gran atractivo
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The New York Times: She’d Never Published a Book Without Paul Auster Reading It First
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The Guardian: Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt review – life after Paul Auster
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The Guardian: ‘After all the horrible things we’ve been through,’ he said to me, ‘if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story’: Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come
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2024· 14 entries
The Guardian: Siri Hustvedt to write a book about her late husband Paul Auster
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The Guardian: The big picture: author Paul Auster in his element
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The Guardian: ‘I remember Paul Auster’: a tribute by Jonathan Lethem to his friend
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The Guardian: Paul Auster obituary
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The Guardian: Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation
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The Guardian: ‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more
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Yahoo: Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dies at 77
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New York Daily News: Brooklyn writer Paul Auster, author of ‘The New York Trilogy,’ dies at 77
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The Guardian: ‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’: Paul Auster – a life in quotes
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Yahoo: Paul Auster, 'The New York Trilogy' author and filmmaker, dies at 77
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The Guardian: Paul Auster – a life in pictures
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New York Post: Paul Auster, bestselling author of ‘New York Trilogy,’ dead at 77
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The Guardian: Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77
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Died 2024-04-30.
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – love, ageing and loss
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The Guardian: ‘This might be the last thing I ever write’: Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure
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Auster's wife Siri Hustvedt revealed on Instagram that he had been diagnosed with cancer in December 2022, and that he had been treated at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since then
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2022· 1 entry
“Film Close Up: Smoke and Blue in the Face”
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2014· 1 entry
“Becoming the Other in Translation”
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2012· 1 entry
Auster said in an interview that he would not visit Turkey, in protest at its treatment of journalists
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2008· 1 entry
"Paul Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature"
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2007).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2007).
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And opened in New York City on September 7 of the same year
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2006).
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Auster directed the film The Inner Life of Martin Frost, based on an original screenplay by him
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2005· 1 entry
His daughter, Sophie, recorded an album of songs in both French and English, entitled Sophie Auster, with the band One Ring Zero, which included a few songs that her father provided the lyrics for
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1998· 1 entry
Auster was the executive producer on the short film I Remember from filmmaker Avi Zev Weider, who adapted it from Joe Brainard’s book I Remember
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Lucien Barrière Literary Award (1994).
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City of Glass was adapted as a graphic novel by artist David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Médicis étranger (1993).
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A movie adaptation of The Music of Chance was released
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1991).
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1982· 2 entries
Of his acclaimed debut work, a memoir titled The Invention of Solitude, Auster gained renown for a series of three loosely connected novellas published collectively as The New York Trilogy (1987), and is often cited as h
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Of The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, which he edited
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1981· 1 entry
Auster married his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, the daughter of professor and scholar Lloyd Hustvedt
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1976· 1 entry
“The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet”
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1974· 1 entry
Continued to work on his poems, essays, and translations of French writers, such as Stéphane Mallarmé and Joseph Joubert
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1970· 1 entry
Moved to Paris where, among other jobs, he tried to earn a living translating French literature
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-02-03.
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