Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American artist, writer and activist (1919-2021) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 101

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

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2021Died22 February 20212012Janus Pannonius International Poetry PrizeAward2003Robert Frost MedalAward2000James Madison Freedom of Information AwardAward1999Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1919Born24 March 1919

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti in Speaking Portraits, 2009

Ferlinghetti's typewriter, now in the National Museum of American History

Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 2012 at Caffe Trieste

A sample of Ferlinghetti's work in San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley, adjacent to the City Lights Bookstore

Career Award Plaque conferred on October 28, 2017, at the Premio di Arti Letterarie Metropoli di Torino, Italy

Awards

Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize2012

Robert Frost Medal2003

James Madison Freedom of Information Award2000

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award1999

Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community

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Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

About this person

An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".

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United States