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Paul Auster
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Paul Auster

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation.

In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His most recent novel, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books by Paul Auster

Smoke & Blue in the Face
Paul Auster
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Author Videos
Paul Auster Interview: How I Became a Writer
Siri Hustvedt & Paul Auster: Interviewed Together
Paul Auster on Existential Doubt, Inspiration and 4 3 2 1
Author Videos
Paul Auster Interview: How I Became a Writer
Paul Auster Interview: How I Became a Writer
Siri Hustvedt & Paul Auster: Interviewed Together
Siri Hustvedt & Paul Auster: Interviewed Together
Paul Auster on Existential Doubt, Inspiration and 4 3 2 1
Paul Auster on Existential Doubt, Inspiration and 4 3 2 1
Praise for Paul Auster

‘One of the great American prose stylists of our time.’

New York Times
Praise for Paul Auster

‘Auster truly is a master of his art.’

Harper’s Bazaar

‘Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.’

The Brooklyn Follies
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‘I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time – which is impossible.’

4 3 2 1
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‘An unreal world was much bigger than a real world, and there was more than enough room in it to be yourself and not yourself at the same time.’

4 3 2 1
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‘The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.’

The Invention of Solitude
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Watch Paul Auster read from 4 3 2 1

On the 31st of January, Faber publishes Paul Auster’s first novel in seven years, the epic 4 3 2 1. 4 3 2 1 begins with the birth of Archibald Isaac Ferguson on March 3, 1947. From this single moment in time, Archibald’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of […]

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