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San Francisco (AP) - The US writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the most important representatives of the literary Beat Generation, is dead. He died on Monday at the age of 101 in San Francisco, shared the legendary City Lights bookstore founded by the poet his website with.
"We will miss him deeply," said Ferlinghetti's death, who led the literary rebellious movement in the west coast metropolis of San Francisco in the 1950s with his beatnik colleagues Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
"We have lost a great poet and visionary," said co-owner and retired bookstore and publisher manager Nancy Peters of the San Francisco Chronicle.
She praised Ferlinghetti, with whom she worked closely for more than 50 years, as the “legend of his time”.
Born in 1919 in the city of Yonkers, New York State, the author published dozens of works over the course of his life.
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"His work earned him a place in the American canon," wrote City Lights.
Ferlinghetti's best-known works included the volume of poetry "A Coney Island of the Mind" from 1958, which has been translated into over twelve languages and, according to City Lights, is one of the best-selling books of poetry of all time.
Ferlinghetti, who served as a soldier in the Pacific during World War II and Normandy for D-Day before moving to San Francisco, was still writing poetry at the age of 100.
The anniversary of the celebrated poet and thinker almost two years ago was celebrated with numerous events.
City Lights asked to commemorate this “fantastic tribute” according to the “San Francisco Chronicle”.
A commemoration event for Ferlinghetti's death was therefore initially not planned due to the corona pandemic.
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Obituary on the City Lights bookstore website
Report to the San Francisco Chronicle