2023-10-28 19:57:32
The New York writer Peter Kaldheim passed away this past Friday in Barcelona suddenly while performing a monologue in the Cronopios room in Barcelona, sources from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) have informed EFE.
Three EMS units went to the scene and tried to revive the writer, who died in the same room in Barcelonathe same sources have indicated.
The newspaper La Vanguardia reported this Saturday of the sudden death of Kaldheim, who began his literary career in the seventies in his native country.
Graduated in English Literature from the prestigious University of Dartmouth (United States), the writer saw his career as a writer and editor cut short due to his addiction to drugs and alcohol, which even led him to the Rikers Island prison in New York.
After leaving prison in the 80s, He traveled all over the United States, without family or money, living on the streets and traveling on freight trains. as in the years of the Great Depression, with all the dangers that entails.
His only book, ‘The idiotic wind’, published by Planeta in Spain, brought him to Barcelona in 2020, a city with which He established an intense relationship that even led him to become interested in Catalan literature.in addition to the Spanish one.
Yesterday was going to be his first performance in public and in Spanish, something that made him especially excited, according to La Vanguardia, which has stated that he was a great admirer of the writers Jack Kerouac and Roberto Bolaño, and describes him as an inveterate reader. and wonderful prescriber, and that leaves what was going to be his second novel unfinished.
The mortal remains of what is considered ‘the last beatnik’, referring to the beat generation and its followers, will be repatriated to the United States.
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