(Reuters) – American novelist Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy, has died at the age of 77.
According to his friend and writer Jacki Lyden, cited by the New York Times, Paul Auster died Tuesday evening of complications from lung cancer, at his home in Brooklyn.
“We are very sad to learn of the death of Paul Auster, Booker Prize nominee, whose work touched readers and influenced writers around the world and whose generosity was equally globally recognized,” the committee wrote of the Booker Prize on the X network.
This literary jury selected Paul Auster’s novel “4 3 2 1” among its selection of works likely to obtain its prestigious award in 2017.
Author of more than 30 novels as well as poems, Paul Auster told Reuters in 2011 that he liked to write his books handwritten in notebooks before writing the final version on a typewriter rather than a computer .
“I feel more alive when I work,” he said.
“I am convinced that writing is a form of illness. Who would want to spend their life sitting in a room, writing words on paper? It’s a strange occupation. You have to have a strong taste for solitude.”
(Surbhi Misra in Bangalore)
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