Paul Auster

Paul Auster was born in 1947 in New Jersey and studied English, French, and Italian literature. He has been awarded the title of fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States for both poetry and prose. In 1990, he received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He wrote the screenplays for the films "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face." At the Berlin International Film Festival in 1995, "Smoke" won the Silver Bear, the Special Jury Prize, the International Critics' Circle Award, and the Audience Award for Best Film. In 1998, he wrote the screenplay and directed the film "Lulu on the Bridge." His work has been translated into 21 languages. In 1997, a collection of Paul Auster's now-rare translations was published under the title "Translations," and in 2001, a selection of stories sent by the audience of his radio show on National Public Radio in the USA was published under the title "True Tales from American Life." He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, also a writer, Siri Hustvedt, and their two children. More information about Paul Auster can be found on his official website, www.paulauster.co.uk (or: www.stuartpilkington.co.uk/paulauster/faq.htm). Works: Poetry: - Unearth - Letters to the Wall - Facing the Music - Disappearances: Selected Poems One-Act Plays: - Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven - Blackout - Hide and Seek Novels: - Squeeze Play - White Spaces - The Invention of Solitude - City of Glass - The Locked Room - In the Country of Last Things - Moon Palace - The Music of Chance - Leviathan - The Red Notebook - Autobiography of the Eye - Vertigo - Dream Days at the Hotel Existence - Timbuktu - The Book of Illusions - Oracle Night - The Brooklyn Follies - Travels in the Scriptorium - Man in the Dark (2008) - Invisible (2009) - Sunset Park (2010) Essays: - The Art of Hunger - Moonlight at the Brooklyn Museum - Foundations - Why Write - Hand to Mouth - Winter Journal (2012)