The author of the “New York Trilogy,” crime-inspired noirs, and more than 30 books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages, was diagnosed with lung cancer last year a year following his son’s death from overdose.
Auster became known for his “highly stylized, idiosyncraticly enigmatic postmodern fiction, in which the narrators are rarely more than unreliable and the background of the plot is constantly shifting,” author Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010.
One of the world’s most important contemporary authors, as well as a poet, essayist, translator, screenwriter and director, Paul Auster was born to Jewish parents of Polish descent, Samuel and Queenie on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey.
He went to school in Maplewood, studied literature at Columbia University, and following graduating, and following spending some time on a tanker, went to France, where he devoted himself to the study of modern French poets and lived with his friend, the writer Lydia Davis, whom he had met in college
In 1974, they returned to the US and married in 1977, the couple had a son, Daniel, but divorced shortly followingwards. In January 1979, Auster’s father died, and the event became the seed for the author’s first memoir, The Invention of Solitude, published in 1982. In it, Auster revealed that his grandmother shot and killed him. paternal grandfather and acquitted by reason of insanity “A boy cannot go through such experiences without being affected by them as a man,” Oster wrote of his father, with whom he described having a “fixed relationship, like opposite sides of a wall”.
In 1981, Oster met writer Siri Hustvedt and they married the following year. Auster’s rise to fame came with the publication of City of Glass in 1985, the first novel in his New York trilogy.
Auster published regularly in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, during which time he wrote over a dozen novels, including: The Moon Palace (1989), The Book of Illusions (2002), “Invisible” (2009) and “Burning Boy” (2021).
Vice President of the American Center PEN (Pen American Center) Oster was better known in Europe than in the USA. His latest novel, Baumgartner, regarding a seventy-year-old widowed writer, was released last October. He also dabbled in film, writing the screenplay for the film Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay in 1995.
Oster is survived by Hustvedt’s widow, their daughter, Sophie Oster, his sister, Janet Oster, and a grandson.
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