Acclaimed American novelist Paul Austerauthor of a prolific work in which the ‘New York Trilogy’, ‘Brooklyn Follies’ and ‘The Invention of Solitude’ stand out, He died this Tuesday at the age of 77, as reported by ‘The New York Times’. Auster died at her home in Brooklyn, New York, due to lung cancer. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a grandson.

Born into a Jewish family of Austrian descent in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, Auster would later become Brooklyn his home and the setting of his novels, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.

In all his works he built literary labyrinths, like Russian dolls, in which mixes fiction, reality and autobiography, and with which it captured millions of readers around the world. In addition to novels, her prolific work translated into more than 40 languages ​​includes poetry, stories, essays or scripts theater and film (some directed by him).

Auster studied at the Columbia University -epicenter of the current student protests against war in Gaza– and participated in the 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War. After finishing university he settled in Paris, where according to ‘New York Magazine’ the New York writer is a ‘rock star’.

He debuted as a writer in 1982 with ‘The invention of loneliness‘, which revolves around the sudden death of his father, but true fame would come to him with ‘New York Trilogy‘, a series of novels that brings together ‘City of Glass’, ‘Ghosts’ and ‘The Locked Room’.

Amid the concern of his millions of followers about his state of health in recent years, Auster published in 2023 ‘Baumgartner‘, starring an eccentric and tender Philosophy professor immersed in pain over the loss of his great love. A story about chance, memory and grief from the New York author.

His life was recently affected by tragedy, when his son Daniel Auster, who was 44 years old, died from an overdose. The writer’s son had been charged with the death of his daughter Ruby -granddaughter of Paul Auster-, 10 months old. According to her testimony, she had consumed heroin when she fell asleep and when the little girl woke up she was dead from fentanyl and heroin poisoning.

In 2006, the writer received the award Prince of Asturias of Letters. In his speech he stated: “I have spent my life striking up conversations with people I have never seen, with people I will never meet, and I hope to continue doing so until the day I breathe my last breath.”