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Paul Auster

Paul Auster is the bestselling, award-winning author of 16 novels, including Sunset Park, Invisible, Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night.

In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix MÃ©dicis Ã‰tranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance), and the Edgar Award (City of Glass). His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.

He lives in Brooklyn.

Articles by Paul Auster

Tuesday December 13

1,001 Laughs

Back in the thirties, Borges worked for an Argentinean women’s magazine called El Hogar–a magazine of middle-class attitudes and presumptions, roughly similar to Redbook in America today.

Saturday December 3

We’re in the Process of Losing Our Country

Was the Wednesday August 4 PEN Club meeting, during which several writers read texts, a demonstration against George Bush or a position-taking in favor of John Kerry? The PEN Club has rules that prohibit support for a political candidate, however, it’s an organization that has always fought for freedom of expression in different countries, and,