Paul Auster is ill. The American writer, who became famous with his New York novels populated by marginal and disoriented characters, is suffering from cancer, his wife announced on Saturday.
The 76-year-old novelist is being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Siri Hustvedt, also a writer, posted on Instagram. “My husband was diagnosed with cancer in December after being ill for the months leading up to it,” she wrote.
“An adventure of closeness and separation”
“I live in a place that I’ve come to call Cancerland.” “Many people have crossed its borders, either because they are or have been sick themselves, or because they love someone, a parent, child, spouse or friend who has or has had a cancer,” she added.
Siri Hustvedt did not specify the type of cancer her husband suffers from or his prognosis. “Living with someone who has cancer and is bombarded with chemotherapy and immunotherapy is an adventure of closeness and separation”. “It’s not always easy to walk this tightrope…”
Paul Auster is the author of more than thirty books which have been translated into more than 40 languages. He came to prominence in 1982 with The invention of loneliness, an autobiographical novel in which he tries to identify the personality of his father. The novelist broke into the international scene in 1987 with his New York trilogya noir novel inspired by the detective genre.
