Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie and Samuel Au... More

Date of birth:

  • Feb 3, 1947 (age 65 years)

Also known as:

  • Paul Benjamin Auster,
  • Auster, Paul,
  • Paul Benjamin
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Year Award Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1996
  • 2006
  • for the transformation in literature that he has wrought by blending the best of American and European traditions, for the innovation he has brought to narrative style in the cinema
  • 1993
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