American author Paul Auster dies at the age of 77

Paul Auster has died at his home in Brooklyn (New York) lung cancer, He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a grandson.

born in the lap of jewish family Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947, Auster, of Austrian descent, later worked brooklyn His home and the background of his novels, especially those of the 1980s and 1990s.

Enthralled millions of readers around the world

He created a literary labyrinth in all his works. Russian doll or matryoshkaIn which he mixed fiction, reality and autobiography, and with which he attracted millions of readers around the world.

In addition to novels, his prolific works, translated into over 40 languages, include Poetry, stories, essays or theater and film scripts

(Some directed by him).

Auster studied at Columbia University – the center of current student protests against the war in Israel – and 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’.

He debuted as a writer in 1982 with ‘.invention of loneliness‘, which revolves around the sudden death of his father, but true fame would come to him from the ‘New York Trilogy’, a series of novels that included ‘City of Glass’, ‘Ghosts’ and ‘The Locked Room’ .

Amid concerns from millions of his followers about the state of his health in recent years, American Paul Auster published in 2023 ‘baumgartner,

It is about an eccentric and tender philosophy professor who is haunted by the loss of his great love. A story about opportunity, memory, and grief from a New York author.

The author received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature

His life was recently affected by a tragedy, when his son Daniel Austerwho was 44, died of an overdose.

The author’s son was charged with the death of Paul Auster’s granddaughter, his 10-month-old daughter Ruby. According to him, he had consumed heroin when he fell asleep and when he woke up, the little girl was dead from the poison of fentanyl and heroin.

In 2006, the author received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. In his speech he said: “I have spent my life interacting with people I have never seen, with people I will never meet, and I hope to do so until I draw my last breath. I will keep doing this until.”

Pedro Sanchez recognizes the importance of his figure

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has published a message on his X account in which he highlights the importance of the work of the North American writer. Sánchez wrote, “Chance, loneliness, destiny and human nature come into play in a work full of characters with complex lives full of nuances, which he also knew how to transfer to cinema.”

“A giant of contemporary literature has disappeared, his legacy remains”The President has finished his message.