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Paul Auster

In conversation with Michelle Richmond

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Poet, translator, editor, author, screenwriter and director, Paul Auster has pursued a literary career of uncommon seriousness, abundance, and originality. Auster has written fourteen novels, five screenplays and numerous other works that range from a volume of poetry to a translation of Sartre. His work has been translated into 35 languages. In Auster's new novel, Man in the Dark, he weaves a dark tale of 21st century America, haunted by the violence of war. The central character of the novel, August Brill, uses a sleepless night to wrestle with grim realities, both political and personal. Psychological depth and intertwined stories have long characterized Auster's fiction, from The New York Trilogy to Oracle Night. Meticulously rendered stories that involve the reader in existential quandaries and a uniquely American vision of the individual have made Auster one of the great American writers. His screenplay for Smoke won the Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay and the Silver Bear from the Berlin Film Festival. An honored member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Auster has won many literary awards including the Prix Medicis, the Commandur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and The Brooklyn Book Festival Best of Brooklyn Literary Award.

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