Author Paul Auster - Photo: The Guardian
The Guardian reported that Paul Auster passed away on April 30 due to complications from lung cancer. His friend, author Jacki Lyden, confirmed the news on behalf of his family.
Paul Auster is known for his engaging, postmodern novels. His stories often feature themes of impermanence, chance, and fate.
A leading figure in the postmodern generation of American writers, Paul Auster wrote more than 20 novels, including the famous The New York Trilogy, City of Glass and the novel 4 3 2 1 .
Writer Paul Auster and his work 4 3 2 1 - Photo: Thomas Lekfeldt
Although he is a famous writer, Paul Auster began his literary career as a translator and essayist.
Paul Auster's first memoir was based on an event that marked a major change in the author's life, when his father passed away in 1979.
The Invention of Solitude blends Paul Auster's personal experiences, family circumstances, and impermanence to talk about the meaning of life.
In it, the author reveals many complex family issues and haunting reflections on his estranged relationship with his recently deceased father. Paul Auster describes his father and himself as having an "irrevocable relationship, cut off from each other on opposite sides of a wall".
Paul Auster and his wife Siri Hustvedt at home in Brooklyn in 2020 - Photo: The Guardian
The Guardian says he is better known in Europe than in his native United States, where he is considered the region's best-selling author. In France alone, Paul Auster has won numerous prestigious literary awards.
Auster's major career breakthrough came with the publication of City of Glass in 1985, the first novel in his New York trilogy.
The work was listed as one of the 25 most important New York City novels of the past 100 years by The New York Times .
Paul Auster was born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. He is a famous contemporary writer, has many best-selling works and received many valuable literary awards.
His name is known in Vietnam through works such as: Naked with literature , Lucky life music, People in the dark...
Paul Auster has also written and co-directed several independent films.
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