Paul Auster’s French publisher pays him a vibrant tribute

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2024-05-01 13:55:42

The Actes Sud house publishes a press release to salute the memory of the American writer, who died on Tuesday April 30 from complications of lung cancer.

Actes Sud, a publishing house which published all the works of Paul Auster in France, paid tribute on Wednesday to the American writer, who died on Tuesday April 30 at the age of 77 from complications of cancer, emphasizing the “luck” that she had to count him among its authors.

“Paul Auster is not, in the Actes Sud catalog, an author among others. His encounter with our editions – at the time almost as unknown as he himself was in his own country – dates from a trip by Hubert Nyssen to New York in the mid-1980s,” recalled the publisher in a press release.

“Being his editor – or his editor, in this case Marie-Catherine Vacher – was a chance and became for Actes Sud a business card circulating widely in the ever-widening circle of Paul Auster’s friends,” he said. added.

A Francophile New Yorker

The writer died at his home in Brooklyn, New York (United States), his friend Jacki Lyden said in an email to AFP. Born in 1947 in the state of New Jersey, Paul Auster became a New York literary icon. Author of around thirty books, he has been translated into more than 40 languages.

After his studies, he lived in Paris from 1971 to 1975 and translated French poets. Revered in France, which he considered his “second country”, he received the Foreign Medici Prize for Leviathan in 1993.

In a message published on (ex-Twitter), the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, for her part greeted a “lover” of French culture, who “loses a great passer”, while the Cannes Festival, where Paul Auster had been part of the jury in 1997, expressed his “great sadness” to learn of his death.

“With the disappearance of Paul Auster, one of the most fervent voices of the city that never sleeps has died out,” lamented the festival.

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