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Paul AusterPoet, novelist and film director
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Biography of Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American writer, translator, and filmmaker, known for his works in the postmodernism, absurdism, and existentialism genres. He is particularly renowned for his crime fiction, which delves into themes of crime, self-discovery, and finding one's purpose. His "New York Trilogy" (1985-1986) received the Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère and was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel in 1986. Auster is married to writer Siri Hustvedt.
Early Life
Paul Benjamin Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a middle-class family of Polish-Jewish descent. His parents, Queenie (born Bogat) and Samuel Auster, raised him in South Orange and Newark. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood and later studied at the same university as his cousin, the late political writer Lawrence Auster, with whom he had a two-year age difference.
Works
Auster is the author of bestselling novels such as "The New York Trilogy," "Timbuktu," "Moon Palace," "Mr. Vertigo," and "The Music of Chance" (adapted into a film). He has also worked as a screenwriter for films like "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face" and directed movies including "Lulu on the Bridge" (1998) and "The Inner Life of Martin Frost" (2007). Additionally, Auster has translated works by French authors such as André Breton, Paul Éluard, Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, Francis Ponge, Raymond Queneau, Georges Simenon, Joubert, Mallarmé, Sartre, Blanchot, André du Bouchet, Joan Miró, and Louis Aragon.
Recognition
Auster's books have been translated into numerous languages, and he has received several prestigious awards. He won the Prix Médicis in 1993 and the Prince of Asturias Literary Award in 2006, which has been renamed the "Princess of Asturias Award" since 2014.
