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Informationen zum Autor Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible , Moon Palace , Mr Vertigo , The Brooklyn Follies , The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy , among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan . He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ( The Book of Illusions ) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ( The Music of Chance ). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext The celebrated author of THE NEW YORK TRILOGY, MOON PALACE, and THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit; conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter; The World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Auster displays all his customary flair, wit and insight. Paul Auster's Collected Prose is an essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. Zusammenfassung The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions and Invisible presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers.
