Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, June 26th - The XX Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium will today evoke the historic meeting between Fidel Castro and the American writer in Havana, among other activities that bring the figure of the author of The Old Man and the Sea to debate.
Until the 28th, the event, taking place in the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts in the capital, serves as a space for tribute and the exchange of knowledge about the life and work of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
According to the program, participants will visit the site where the meeting took place on May 15, 1960, during the celebration of the Marlin Fishing tournament, organized since May 1950 and considered the oldest of its kind in the world.
"I had no experience in that, but I participated and had a good boat skipper. And I was lucky that, with little time remaining, on the second day, in the last hour, I captured two marlin. And I won the prize," the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution said at the time.
In the morning, the academic session invites the presentation of the digital book The Sun Also Rises and the conference Finca Vigía, from Origins to Hemingway.
It also proposes an approach to An Ideal Married Couple According to the Interpretation of Hemingway's Marginalia and To Have and Have Not, Hemingway the Playwright and his Mark on the Stage, Ernest Hemingway: The Pen that Traveled the World, The Spanish Influences in Finca Vigía: The Only Living Museum of Ernest Hemingway in the World, among other investigations.
The academic session of the Colloquium, which opened the day before, features 19 presentations, 11 of which are national and eight from Japan, Argentina, Canada, and the United States.
The event promises to be a space for exchanging information with specialists and institutions related to the museum named after the renowned writer, as well as for confronting recent works about his life and work.
This edition recalls 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 conclusion of A Moveable Feast and the historic meeting between both figures. (Text and photo: PL)
