Paul Auster (February 3, 1947, Newark, New Jersey - April 30, 2024, Brooklyn, New York, USA) was an American novelist, poet and screenwriter. Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in New Jersey, to a Jewish family that had immigrated to the United States from Poland. His mother was Miss Queenie Auster, and his father was Mr. Samuel Auster, a lawyer. He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and Newark. He studied English, French and Italian literature at Columbia University and lived in France between 1971 and 1974. Auster, who was first married to the American writer

Lydia Davis, married another well-known American writer

Siri Hustvedt in 1981. The main works of Auster, who has been able to go beyond traditional book subjects and expand the boundaries of creativity with great success, include the New York Trilogy, The Discovery of Loneliness, The Book of Illusions, The Red Notebook, Leviathan, Night of Prophecy, Smoke, The Unseen, Fear of Heights, Journeys in the Writing Room, There is The Man in the Dark. Auster also had a detective novel published under the signature of Paul Benjamin during his troubled days when he first started writing. This novel is based on the author's autobiographical novel 'Hole in the Pocket' It was published as an appendix. 'Cutting it in a Corner' with the translation of

Seçkin Selvi by Can Publications. It was translated into Turkish in 2000 under the name. In 2006, Paul Auster won the Asturias Prize, one of Spain's prestigious awards, in the field of literature. The 26th "Prince of Asturias" festival was held for the 26th time. At the awards, 26 writers from 18 countries, including

Orhan Pamuk, were nominated in the literature category. The author's scripts named Duman (Smoke) and Surat Mosmor (Blue in the Face) were shot into films by the famous director Wayne Wang. Later, he made his book Lulu On The Bridge into a movie and participated in all stages of the work as both a screenwriter and director. While talking about his own style of writing in an interview about the film, he quoted an interview by Peter Brook and said that he tried to combine the distance of myths with the simplicity of everyday life in his works. Awards 2006 - 26th Asturias Prize - Literature

Title:

Amerikalı Yazar, Şair ve Senarist

Birth:

Newark, New Jersey, ABD, 3 February 1947

Death:

Brooklyn, New York, ABD, 30 April 2024

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