Ernest Hemingway
On our last day in Cuba, having visited Hemingway’s home – left exactly as it was when he’d been there – we chanced upon the launch of Ernest Hemingway’s Havana at the Buena Vista Curry Club – yes, you read right – this contains Cuba’s first Indian restaurant and is a tiny venue for literary events.
The food was great and so was the evening – giving a flavour of what Havana had been like in the time of Hemingway. Some of the artists performing had been alive in Hemingway’s day – the last member of the group which invented the Rumba, a Cuban diva and Victoria Hemmingway (assistant in Spain/Cuba, not a wife) giving some inside tales on Hemingway in Cuba, including the fact that Fidel Castro when he perchance met Hemingway mentioned that The Old Man and the Sea was his favourite novel (it gave tips on how to conduct a revolution).
Robert Wheeler, author of Hemingway’s Havana, captures some of the feeling in his blog (despite not being updated since 2015). Another place Hemingway frequented is the Hotel Ambos Mundos, the place we were having a drink when we discovered the evening show.
A full list of Hemingway’s books can be found on the Nobel Prize site. Heminway received the award in 1954.
Hemmingway’s first short story. He was the first to sign the Wall of Alassio in Italy.
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Hemingway#writing pic.twitter.com/WrBmUrJmfS— Novelicious (@noveliciouss) 23 June 2017
"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it." – Ernest Hemingway #writing #books #literarylightbox pic.twitter.com/32j63xkFdf
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Hemingway came to a sad end:
9/ On the morning of 2nd July, 1961, Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head at his home. His wife said that he had shot himself accidentally while cleaning his weapon. But many of Hemingway's friends believed he killed himself. pic.twitter.com/P9z5QrEEXE
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In Sai-Ko, Gabriela Harding refers to a Hemingway hat
Sue Hampton refers to the author in her short story The Minimalist
And the author features in comparison in Leslie Tate’s Heaven’s Rage
Bhupendra Brahmabhatt refers to Hemingway’s time in Africa in Kenya Days, Moonlit Nights
