title: Smoke (film)
The Invention of Solitude
Mr. Vertigo
The Red Notebook
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
The Story of My Typewriter
Paul Auster
Claude Simon
4 3 2 1 (novel)
Report from the Interior
sentences: Smoke is a 1995 American independent film by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster.
 The original story was written by Paul Auster, who also wrote the screenplay.
 The film was produced by Hisami Kuroiwa, Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein and directed by Wayne Wang.
 Among others, it features Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Victor Argo, Forest Whitaker, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing and Harold Perrineau Jr..
The Invention of Solitude is the debut work of Paul Auster, a memoir published in the year 1982.
 The book is divided into two separate parts, "Portrait of an Invisible Man", which concerns the sudden death of Auster's father, and "The Book of Memory", in which Auster delivers his personal opinions concerning subjects such as coincidence, fate, and solitude, subjects that have become trademarks of Auster's works.
Mr. Vertigo is a novel written by the American author Paul Auster.
 Faber & Faber first published it in 1994 in Great Britain.
 The book fits well in Auster’s bibliography, which has reappearing themes like failure and identity and genres like absurdist fiction, crime fiction and existentialism.
The Red Notebook is the title story in a story collection by the same name by Paul Auster.
 The book consists of four parts, all stories which had appeared previously: "The Red Notebook" (1995), "Why Write?"
 (1996), "Accident Report" (1999) and "It Don't Mean a Thing" (2000).
 They are true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all one thing in common: the paradox of coincidence.
 Auster narrates things he writes about in his fiction, making one wonder if he's really telling the truth.
 Implying that everything and everyone is somehow, mysteriously, connected to each other.
The Inner Life of Martin Frost is a 2007 American romantic-mystery drama film directed by Paul Auster and starring David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, and Michael Imperioli.
 Written by Paul Auster, the film is about an author who having just completed his fourth novel travels to his friends' vacant country house to spend a few weeks alone.
 There he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman who inspires him to write a new story.
 Filmed in Azenhas do Mar in Sintra, Portugal in the spring of 2006, "The Inner Life of Martin Frost" is Auster's fourth film as director and writer.
 The film premiered at the New Directors/New Films Festival on March 21, 2007, and was released in the United States on September 7, 2007.
The Story of My Typewriter is a 2002 book, by Paul Auster, mostly with pictures by the painter Sam Messer.
 It is about the author's old Olympia () typewriter.
 Auster bought the typewriter in 1972 from an old college friend who had owned it since 1962.
 Allegedly, everything Auster has written since has been typed on it.
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning.
 His notable works include "The New York Trilogy" (1987), "Moon Palace" (1989), "The Music of Chance" (1990), "The Book of Illusions" (2002), and "The Brooklyn Follies" (2005).
 His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Claude Simon (] ; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and critic, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
4 3 2 1 is a novel by Paul Auster published in January 2017.
 At the time of its publication, it was the first new Auster novel to have appeared in seven years.
 Auster worked on the book seven days a week for three years and wrote it in long hand.
 At 866 pages, the novel is much longer than any of his previous works.
 In September 2017 it was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
Report from the Interior is an autobiographical work by Paul Auster published in 2013.
 It is a companion volume to Auster's "Winter Journal" (2012), and so was the second book of memoirs Auster published in back-to-back years.

Question: Question: Which author, Claude Simon or Paul Auster, has written books that have been translated into more than forty languages? 

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 Mr. Vertigo is a novel written by the American author Paul Auster.
 Faber & Faber first published it in 1994 in Great Britain.
 The book fits well in Auster’s bibliography, which has reappearing themes like failure and identity and genres like absurdist fiction, crime fiction and existentialism. 

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 The Red Notebook is the title story in a story collection by the same name by Paul Auster.
 The book consists of four parts, all stories which had appeared previously: "The Red Notebook" (1995), "Why Write?"
 (1996), "Accident Report" (1999) and "It Don't Mean a Thing" (2000).
 They are true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all one thing in common: the paradox of coincidence.
 Auster narrates things he writes about in his fiction, making one wonder if he's really telling the truth.
 Implying that everything and everyone is somehow, mysteriously, connected to each other. 

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 The Inner Life of Martin Frost is a 2007 American romantic-mystery drama film directed by Paul Auster and starring David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, and Michael Imperioli.
 Written by Paul Auster, the film is about an author who having just completed his fourth novel travels to his friends' vacant country house to spend a few weeks alone.
 There he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman who inspires him to write a new story.
 Filmed in Azenhas do Mar in Sintra, Portugal in the spring of 2006, "The Inner Life of Martin Frost" is Auster's fourth film as director and writer.
 The film premiered at the New Directors/New Films Festival on March 21, 2007, and was released in the United States on September 7, 2007. 

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 The Story of My Typewriter is a 2002 book, by Paul Auster, mostly with pictures by the painter Sam Messer.
 It is about the author's old Olympia () typewriter.
 Auster bought the typewriter in 1972 from an old college friend who had owned it since 1962.
 Allegedly, everything Auster has written since has been typed on it. 

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 Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning.
 His notable works include "The New York Trilogy" (1987), "Moon Palace" (1989), "The Music of Chance" (1990), "The Book of Illusions" (2002), and "The Brooklyn Follies" (2005).
 His books have been translated into more than forty languages. 

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 Claude Simon (] ; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and critic, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. 

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 4 3 2 1 is a novel by Paul Auster published in January 2017.
 At the time of its publication, it was the first new Auster novel to have appeared in seven years.
 Auster worked on the book seven days a week for three years and wrote it in long hand.
 At 866 pages, the novel is much longer than any of his previous works.
 In September 2017 it was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. 

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 Report from the Interior is an autobiographical work by Paul Auster published in 2013.
 It is a companion volume to Auster's "Winter Journal" (2012), and so was the second book of memoirs Auster published in back-to-back years. 

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Answer: Paul Benjamin Auster