Paul Auster
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Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and film director.
His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017).
His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Early life
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle-class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He is the first cousin of the late political writer Lawrence Auster, with whom he attended high school and university, two years apart. He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, and Newark, and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.
Personal life
Auster was married to the writer Lydia Davis. They had one son together, Daniel Auster, who was arrested and charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of his 10-month old infant daughter on April 16, 2022, who consumed heroin and fentanyl he was using. On April 26, 2022, Daniel, who was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia, died from an overdose.
Auster and his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt (the daughter of professor and scholar Lloyd Hustvedt), were married in 1981, and they live in Brooklyn. Together they have one daughter, Sophie Auster.
He has said his politics are "far to the left of the Democratic Party" but that he votes Democratic because he doubts a socialist candidate could win. He has described right-wing Republicans as "jihadists" and the election of Donald Trump as "the most appalling thing I've seen in politics in my life."
In September 2009, he signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
Career
With a B.A. degree, Columbia University's Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) graduated. M.A. and M.A. He went to Paris, France, where he made a living translating French literature. Since returning to the United States in 1974, he has published poems, essays, and books, as well as translations of French writers, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Joseph Joubert.
Auster earned renown for a collection of three closely related stories published collectively as The New York Trilogy after his critically acclaimed debut work, The Invention of Solitude. Although these books refer to the detective genre, they are not typical detective stories based on a mystery and a sequence of clues. Rather, he uses the detective mode to explore existential issues of identity, space, terminology, and literature, resulting in his own distinctively postmodern (and critique of postmodern) model in the process. "The Trilogy proceeds directly from The Invention of Solitude," Auster says.
The quest for identity and personal meaning has permeated Auster's later books, many of which emphasize coincidence and random events (The Music of Chance) or, increasingly, people's relationships with their peers and environment (The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace). Heroes in Auster are often required to serve as part of someone else's incomprehensible and larger-than-life scheme. Auster produced and co-directed the films Smoke (which earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay) and Blue in the Face in 1995. Auster's most recent contributions, from Oracle Night (2003) to 4 3 2 1 (2017), have received critical acclaim.
From 2004 to 2009, he served on the PEN American Center Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2009, and Vice President from 2005 to 2007.
Auster said in an interview that he would not go to Turkey in protest of the country's treatment of journalists. "As if we need you!" Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdos replied.Who cares if you come or not?"
"According to the most recent data published by International PEN, almost a hundred writers have been jailed in Turkey, not to mention independent publishers like Ragp Zarakolu, whose situation is being closely followed by PEN Centers around the world."Seven Stories Press published A Life in Words, one of Auster's most recent books, in October 2017. It brought together three years of conversations with Danish scholar I.B. Siegumfeldt discusses each one of his books, both fiction and non-fiction. It has been regarded as the primary source for investigating Auster's work.
Auster is willing to give Iranian translators permission to write Persian versions of his books in exchange for a small fee; Iran does not recognize international copyright legislation.
Much of Auster's early scholarship found connections between it and the writings of writers like Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and others. Auster has denied these influences, but has stated in print that "I've only read just one short essay by Lacan, the 'Purloined Letter,' in the Yale French Studies issue on poststructuralism, all the way back in 1966." Other scholars have reflected on Auster's study of the American transcendentalists of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The transcendentalists believed that the symbolic order of civilization has divided us from the world's original order, and that by returning to nature, as Thoreau wrote in Walden, it would be possible to return to this original order.
Both Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett, and Nathaniel Hawthorne have all had a major influence on Auster's writing. In his books, Auster has specifically referred to characters from Poe and Hawthorne, for example William Wilson in City of Glass or Hawthorne's Fanshawe in The Locked Room, both from The New York Trilogy.
Paul Auster's recurring themes include:
Awards
- 1989 Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère for The New York Trilogy
- 1990 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist for The Music of Chance
- 1993 Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan
- 1996 Bodil Awards – Best American Film: Smoke
- 1996 Independent Spirit Award – Best First Screenplay: Smoke
- 1996 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
- 2001 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Timbuktu
- 2003 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for The Book of Illusions
- 2005 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Oracle Night
- 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
- 2006 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Literature
- 2007 Honorary doctor from the University of Liège
- 2007 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Brooklyn Follies
- 2007 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Travels in the Scriptorium
- 2009 Premio Leteo (León, Spain).
- 2010 Médaille Grand Vermeil de la ville de Paris
- 2010 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Man in the Dark
- 2011 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Invisible
- 2012 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Sunset Park
- 2012 NYC Literary Honors for fiction
- 2017 Booker Prize Shortlist for "4321"
