American writer Paul Auster dies at 77
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Acclaimed American novelist Paul Austerauthor of a prolific work in which the New York Trilogy, Brooklyn Follies either The invention of lonelinessdied this Tuesday at 77 years oldin his home in Brooklyn (New York), due to a lung cancer.
Born into a Jewish family of Austrian descent in 1947, in Newark, New Jersey, Auster would later make Brooklyn his home and the setting for his novels, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.
He built in all his works literary labyrinthslike Russian dolls or matryoshkasin which he mixes fiction, reality and autobiography, and with which he captured millions of readers around the world.
In addition to novels, his prolific work has been translated into more than 40 languages, including Basqueand includes poetry, stories, essays or theater and film scripts (some directed by him).
Auster studied at Columbia University, the epicenter of the current student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, and participated in the 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
He debuted as a writer in 1982 with The invention of loneliness, which revolves around the sudden death of his father; However, his true fame would come with New York Trilogya series of novels that brings together City of glass, Ghosts and The closed room. In 2017, the writer visited Bilbao, where he presented his novel 4 3 2 1.
Amid the concern of his millions of followers about his state of health in recent years, the American published in 2023 Baumgartner. It is a book 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.
In 2006, the writer received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. 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.”
Source: Eitb
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