Patti Smith come to the Book Fair – Göteborgs-Posten

Patti Smith. Picture: Picture: Adam Ihse

The artist, painter and writer Patti Smith come to the Book Fair in September.

– of course it is great to Patti Smith comes here and then as an author and talk about their literature. I think this is the first time in Sweden, says Daniel Levin, who is the program manager for Book & amp; Library.

At the Book Fair met Patti Smith and former Archbishop KG Hammmar in a conversation with the title Life, art and love according to Patti Smith. They will also pay a part of the conversation to their common interest in the Dag Hammarskjöld tankebok Road.

Patti Smith’s big break came in 1975 with the album Horses, which she also performed in its entirety during the last year Way out West at Slottsskogen.

2015 came her book M Train on Swedish, a follow up on the soul autobiography Just Kids, which dealt with the relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the dream of becoming a singer. IM Train she reflects over minnnen and dreams and writes about the grief for her husband Fred “Sonic” Smith.

GP critic Johan Lindqvist wrote about M Train to “about Just Kids was a stringent, autobiographical developing story of how the young Patti Smith allowed himself electrified by New York City’s M Train a deliberately messy tankebok to continue to glow and develop while you have to accept that both the highways, and friends are becoming fewer and fewer. the grief, longing and the stark realization that no one stops whatever she returns to. “

the Book Fair will be held september 22 to 25. The conversation between Patti Smith and KG Hammar held on Thursday 22 September.