seen in politics in my life." In September 2009, he signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. Awards 1989 Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère for The New York Trilogy 1990 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist for The Music of Chance 1993 Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan 1996 Bodil Awards – Best American Film: Smoke 1996 Independent Spirit Award – Best First Screenplay: Smoke 1996 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence 2001 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Timbuktu 2003 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2004 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for The Book of Illusions 2005 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Oracle Night 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2006 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Literature 2007 Honorary doctor from the University of Liège 2007 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Brooklyn Follies 2007 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Travels in the Scriptorium 2009 Premio Leteo (León, Spain). 2010 Médaille Grand Vermeil de la ville de Paris 2010 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Man in the Dark 2011 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Invisible 2012 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Sunset Park 2012 NYC Literary Honors for fiction 2017 Booker Prize Shortlist for "4321" Published works Fiction Squeeze Play (1984) (Written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin) The New York Trilogy (1987) City of Glass (1985) Ghosts (1986) The Locked Room (1986) In the Country of Last Things (1987) Moon Palace (1989) The Music of Chance (1990) Leviathan (1992) Mr. Vertigo (1994) Timbuktu (1999) The Book of Illusions (2002) Oracle Night (2003) The Brooklyn Follies (2005) Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) Man in the Dark (2008) Invisible (2009) Sunset Park (2010) Day/Night (2013) 4 3 2 1 (2017) Nonfiction The Invention of Solitude (1982) The Art of Hunger (1992) The Red Notebook (1995) (The Red Notebook was originally printed in Granta (44)). (1993). Hand to Mouth (1997) Collected Prose (contains The Invention of Solitude, The Art of Hunger, The Red Notebook, and Hand to Mouth as well as various other previously uncollected pieces) (first edition, 2005; expanded second