Awards & Winners

Paul Auster

Date of Birth 03-February-1947
Place of Birth Newark
(New Jersey, Essex County, United States of America, Area codes 862 and 973, Area code 973, Area code 862)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Paul Benjamin Auster, Auster, Paul, Paul Benjamin, Paul Queen, Paul Benjamin Auster, Paul Benjamin, Paul Benjamin Auster, Paul Benjamin Auster
Profession Writer, Screenwriter, Poet, Film Director, Critic, Editor, Translator
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, The Book of Illusions, and The Brooklyn Follies.

Awards by Paul Auster

Check all the awards nominated and won by Paul Auster.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Ictineu Prize for best work of fiction translated into Catalan Man in the Dark

2006


Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
(for the transformation in literature that he has wrought by blending the best of American and European traditions, for the innovation he has brought to narrative style in the cinema)

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Book of Illusions

1996


Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay
Honored for : Smoke

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay Smoke
César Award for Best Foreign Film Smoke

1993


Prix Médicis étranger
Honored for : Leviathan

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The Music of Chance

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Novel City of Glass

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best Original P.I. Paperback Squeeze Play