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Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 February 1947
- Died
- 30 April 2024
- Place of birth
- Newark
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Auster
- Spouse
- Lydia Davis, Siri Hustvedt
- Child
- Daniel Auster, Sophie Auster
- Genre
- prose
- Field of work
- literature, English studies, comparative literature, film, film direction, film screenwriting, translation from French, translation into English
- Occupation
- screenwriter, film director, linguist, translator, novelist, poet, essayist, university teacher, autobiographer, writer, playwright, musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, Prix Médicis étranger, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Honorary doctor of the University of Liège, honorary doctorate of the University of Copenhagen, Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela estranxeira, Lucien Barrière Literary Award, Prix France-Culture de littérature étrangère
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- educated at
- Columbia University, Columbia High School
- employer
- Columbia University
- end of work period
- 2024
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Paul Auster
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- notable work
- Man in the Dark, The Book of Illusions, Leviathan, The New York Trilogy
- number of children
- 2
- place of burial
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Paul Benjaminn
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Paul Auster, Category:Films with screenplays by Paul Auster
- start of work period
- 1974
- topic has template
- Template:Paul Auster
- topic's main category
- Category:Paul Auster
- work location
- United States
- writing language
- English
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