Acclaimed American novelist Paul Austerauthor of a prolific work in which the New York Trilogy, The invention of loneliness either Crystal City, He died this Tuesday at the age of 77, according to reports The New York Times.
Auster died at home, in Brooklyn (New York), due to lung cancer. He is survived by his wife, fellow writer Siri Hustvedt, a daughter and a grandson.
Born in the bosom of 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 literary labyrinths in all his workslike Russian dolls or matryoshkas, in which she mixes fiction, reality and autobiography, and with which she captured millions of readers around the world.
In addition to novels, his prolific work translated into more than 40 languages includes poetry, stories, essays or theater and film scripts (some directed by him).
Auster studied at Columbia University and He 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’.
His debut was in 1982
He debuted as a writer in 1982 with The invention of lonelinesswhich revolves around the sudden death of his father, but true fame would come to him with New York Trilogya 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, the American Paul Auster published in 2023 Baumgartner.
It is about 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 touched by tragedy, when his son Daniel Auster, who was 44, died of an overdose.
The writer’s son had been charged with the death of his 10-month-old daughter Ruby – granddaughter of Paul Auster. According to him, he had consumed heroin when he fell asleep and when the little girl woke up, she was dead from fentanyl and heroin poisoning.
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.”
