New York writer Peter Kaldheim He passed away in Barcelona last Friday. While doing a monologue, suddenly Sources from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) at the Cronopios room in Barcelona informed EFE.
Three emergency services teams went to the scene and tried to resuscitate the author. Died in the same room in Barcelonathe same sources stated.
La Vanguardia newspaper reported this Saturday the sudden death of Kaldheim, who started his literary career in his native country in the seventies.
An English Literature graduate from the prestigious Dartmouth University (United States), he saw his career as a writer and editor cut short due to drug and alcohol addiction, which even landed him in Rikers Island prison in New York.
After being released from prison in the 80s Without family and money, he traveled all over the United States, living on the streets and traveling on freight trains. Just like the years of the Great Depression, with all the dangers that entailed.
His only book, ‘The Stupid Wind’, published by Planeta in Spain, brought him to Barcelona in 2020. He even established an intense relationship that led to his interest in Catalan literature.In addition to the Spanish one.
According to La Vanguardia, who states that he is a big fan of writers Jack Kerouac and Roberto Bolaño and describes himself as a passionate person, yesterday was to be his first performance in public and in Spanish, something he was particularly excited about. reader and a great prescriber, which leaves his second novel unfinished.
The bodies of those considered the ‘last beatnik’, a reference to the Beat generation and their followers, will be sent back to the United States.