Havana, June 28 (Prensa Latina) Visiting the museum in Cuba that preserves the memory of the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway is more than just a huge satisfaction for visitors, it is an experience worth experiencing on multiple occasions.
At Finca Vigía, as this property is also known, located about 15 km from the historic center of this city, the presence of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature is felt in every corner, where art, culture, and history converge in perfect harmony.
National and international participants gathered here for the 20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium, which opened last Wednesday with the presence of academics, scholars, and admirers of the life and work of the author of “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
The Gigi’s Stars Community Children’s Baseball Project welcomed everyone to the venue with a small representation of the sport they passionately display, both in spirit and on their jerseys.
The reproduction of the Nobel Prize in Literature scroll was then unveiled, an activity coordinated with the Swedish Embassy in Cuba.
Today we are donating a photographic reproduction of the Nobel Prize diploma that Ernest Hemingway received in 1954, symbolizing the cultural ties between Sweden and Cuba, said Magnus Johansson Foddrell, First Secretary of the Embassy in Havana.
Later, tourists and Colloquium guests saw—some for the first time—the museum where Hemingway completed For Whom the Bell Tolls and wrote Across the River and Into the Trees, The Old Man and the Sea, A Place Like Home, and Islands in the Gulf, as well as numerous newspaper articles.
Many of the works on display there, and the decor itself, are a source of wonder; however, the collection of more than 900 records, spanning a wide variety of genres, reveals a little-known side of the narrator: his exquisite taste in art.
At the closing ceremony, simple but moving, the participant’s diploma was presented to the founder of the Colloquium, Gladys Rodríguez Ferrero, and the rest of the speakers.
With the invitation to participate in the 2027 edition, a competition that honors a writer whose work is considered among the classics of 20th-century literature concludes.
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