The New Yorker Writer Peter Kaldheim died last Friday in Barcelona suddenly during a monologue in the Cronopios room in Barcelona, sources from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) have informed EFE.
Three rescue workers went to the scene and tried to revive the writer died in the same room in Barcelonahave cited the same sources.
The newspaper La Vanguardia reported this Saturday on the sudden death of Kaldheim, who began his literary career in his home country in the 1970s.
After graduating in English literature from the prestigious Dartmouth University (USA), the writer had to abandon his career as an author and editor due to his drug and alcohol addiction, which even led him to Rikers Island prison in New York.
After he was released from prison in the 80s, He traveled across the United States without family or money, living on the streets and traveling on freight trains. like in the years of the global economic crisis, with all the dangers that entails.
His only book, “The Idiotic Wind,” published by Planeta in Spain, took him to Barcelona in 2020, a city with which He developed an intense relationship that even led him to become interested in Catalan literature.in addition to the Spanish one.
His first public appearance in Spanish was supposed to take place yesterday, which, according to La Vanguardia, particularly excited him. The newspaper stated that he was a great admirer of the writers Jack Kerouac and Roberto Bolaño and described him as an inveterate reader and wonderful writer, and that leaves his second novel unfinished.
The remains of the man considered the “last beatnik,” referring to the Beat generation and its followers, are being repatriated to the United States.
