Havana, June 27 (Prensa Latina) Academics and scholars, all admirers of the work of the celebrated American writer Ernest Hemingway, are meeting here today to recall his legacy and share knowledge at the international colloquium that bears his name.
There are only a few hours left until the end of the event, whose Academic Session takes place in the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts.
From there, participants will access the history preserved in the pages of the book “Hemingway’s Havana and Other Stories” by Cuban journalist, writer, and essayist Ciro Bianchi and will visit the San Gerónimo University College in Havana.
The academic program of the 20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium also included the presentations The Presence of Botany in the Finca Vigía Collection, and Panarchy, Learning and Transformation in the “Great River with Two Hearts.”
Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Geography, and Hemingway’s anti-fascist struggle will be other investigations that will highlight the figure of the author of The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
This journey through the life and work of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature is a must-see for the “Hemingway’s Havana” tour, with visits to Sloppy Joe’s Bar and Floridita Bar.
The event, which began last Wednesday and will conclude tomorrow, provides a platform for exchanging information with specialists and institutions affiliated with the museum that bears the writer’s name, as well as for comparing recent works about his life and work.
This edition commemorates the 90th and 85th anniversaries of the first publication of the novels “The Green Hills of Africa” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” respectively.
It also commemorates the 65th anniversary of the completion of “A Party to Live” and the meeting between Fidel Castro and Hemingway in Havana on May 15, 1960.
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