The American author Paul Auster is dead. This is what they report New York Times and the Guardian citing a friend of the author. Accordingly, Auster died in Brooklyn at the age of 77.
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Auster has written more than 30 books that have been translated into more than 40 languages. Last year, his wife, the American writer Siri Hustvedt, made it public that Auster had lung cancer.
Auster was born in Newark in 1947 to Jewish immigrants. Even in his youth he dreamed of becoming a writer. He studied literature in New York and France and initially supported himself through teaching assignments and translation work.
“City of Glass” made him famous
In the mid-1980s he succeeded City of glassPart of New-York-Trilogie, the breakthrough. It was the first part of three loosely connected detective stories. He later established himself with works such as Moon over Manhattan, Mr Vertigo and The Book of Illusions
as a bestselling author.
The Rowohlt publishing house in Hamburg announced that he was one of the outstanding authors of contemporary American literature. “The German translations of his books have been published by Rowohlt Verlag since 1989, a long-lasting and deep connection that makes us feel the loss all the more painfully.”
Writing as a question of survival
More recently, Auster has published several extensive works, including the novel 4 3 2 1 from 2017, which contains more than 1,000 pages, and the approximately 800-page biography about the US author Stephen Crane (1871–1900) with the title In flames. The relatively short novel at around 200 pages Baumgartner was only released in the USA last November.
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It was even more popular in Europe than in the USA. He was “obsessed” with writing, Auster once said. “For me, writing is not an act of free will, it is a matter of survival.” And at the same time he said: “It’s the hardest thing I can imagine.”
For the publication of Baumgartner last year he told the Guardian: “I feel like my health is so precarious that this might be the last thing I ever write.” But if this is the end, then it was worth it, he said at the time. He walks surrounded by “human kindness” in his circle of friends.
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The American author Paul Auster is dead. This is what they report New York Times and the Guardian citing a friend of the author. Accordingly, Auster died in Brooklyn at the age of 77.
Auster has written more than 30 books that have been translated into more than 40 languages. Last year, his wife, the American writer Siri Hustvedt, made it public that Auster had lung cancer.
Auster was born in Newark in 1947 to Jewish immigrants. Even in his youth he dreamed of becoming a writer. He studied literature in New York and France and initially supported himself through teaching assignments and translation work.