Author Paul Auster has died

The New York Times writes. He died after complications in connection with lung cancer, the newspaper writes.

Auster has written a number of novels, poems, essays and film scripts, and is best known for the “New York trilogy”.

Many of his books have also been translated into Norwegian. He was married to Norwegian-born Siri Hustvedt, who is also a writer.

Several of his film scripts became film successes, including “Smoke” from 1995, and “Lulu on the Bridge” from 1998.

He also directed the latter, as he did with “Blue in the Face”, a loose sequel to “Smoke”.

VG spoke to him in connection with the launch of the novel “4 3 2 1”, an almost 900-page novel that came out in Norwegian in 2017.

Coincidentally, I started writing on “4 3 2 1” when I was 66 years old. When I started it, I wasn’t sure if I would live to see it finished, he said at the time.

In 2022, a tragedy struck Paul Auster. His son, Daniel, died, eleven days after he was charged with the manslaughter of his own daughter.

The daughter, Sophie Auster, has written on Instagram about her father’s cancer, which has affected the family for the past year, and how this coincided with the fact that she herself was expecting a child.

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