The American writer Philip Roth died

At the age of 85, an American writer, winner of the Pulitzer and Buker prizes Philip Roth, died, BBC reports .

The cause of death is not specified.

The mouth gained worldwide fame thanks to its novels “The Case of the Portle”, “Liberated Tsukerman”, “Spit”, “Conspiracy against America”. In total, he wrote more than 30 books.

The writer received the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for the novel "American Pastoral". In 2011, he was awarded the Buker Prize. The mouth was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, but never received it. The writer - laureate of the Franz Kafka Prize (2001) and the American Literary Prize Pen/Faulkner (2007), was awarded the US National Humanitarian Medal (2010). In 2013, the company received the highest state award of France - the Order of the Legion of Honor. In the recognition of the literary merits of the company of the power of his hometown of Newark in the state of New Jersey, during the life of the writer, one of the squares was named in his honor.

The writer was born on March 19, 1933 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Galicia. In 1954 he graduated from the University of Baconel. For three years, his mouth taught literature at the University of Chicago, wrote reviews of films and television programs for the New Republic newspaper. In 1959, the company published his first collection of stories "Farewell, Columbus", for which he was awarded the National Book Prize. In 1962, the first novel of the company "Spit" was released. He gained even greater fame after the novel “The Case of the Portle” (1969). The novel "Conspiracy against America" ​​(2004), which describes the establishment of a pronounced regime in the USA in 1940 after a loss in the presidential election of Franklin Roosevelt, became a bestseller.