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Biography
Paul Benjamin Auster was 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).
Awards & recognition
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 2007
- Honorary doctor of the University of Liège · 2007
- Princess of Asturias Literary Prize · 2006
- Lucien Barrière Literary Award · 1994
- Prix Médicis étranger · 1993
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- PEN/Faulkner Award — Fiction · 1991
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- honorary doctorate of the University of Copenhagen
- Booker Prize · 2017 · nominated
Filmography9 titles
Smoke
1995Director, Writer
1995Director, Writer
Blue in the Face
1995Director, Writer
1995Director, Writer
Lulu on the Bridge
1998Director, Writer
1998Director, Writer
Bonnie
2022as Self
2022as Self
The Center of the World
2001Story
2001Story
In the Country of Last Things
2020Executive Producer, Novel
2020Executive Producer, Novel
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
2007as Narrator (voice)
2007as Narrator (voice)
Act of God
2009as himself
2009as himself
Out of My Head
2017
2017