President Sauli Niinistö, among others, has admitted to being an admirer of the American contemporary writer.
A respected American contemporary writer Paul Auster has died at the age of 77, says The New York Times.
The author died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn, New York of complications from lung cancer. The author’s death was confirmed to the New York Times by a journalist friend Jackie Lyden.
Known for his New York trilogy, among other things, Auster tried to describe as little as possible in the text of his books, leaving the reader with the opportunity to imagine the missing parts.
Auster has also written a few film scripts. In the film world, he is perhaps best known as the screenwriter of the 1995 film Smoke.
Auster visited Helsinki in 2017, when he was interviewed at a public event by the then president of Finland Sauli Niinistö.
Auster’s most recent work of fiction, Baumgartner, was published in English last year.
Auster was married to Siri Hustvedt, an American author of Norwegian background.
The news is updated.