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Havana, June 27 – Academics and scholars, all admirers of the work of the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway, are gathering here today to recall his legacy and share knowledge at the international colloquium bearing his name.
There are only a few hours left until the end of the event, whose Academic Session is taking place in the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts.
From there, participants will access the history that shelters the pages of the book "Hemingway's Havana and Other Stories" by the Cuban journalist, writer and essayist Ciro Bianchi and visit the San Gerónimo University College in Havana.
The academic program of the 20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium also reserved the presentations "The Presence of Botany in the Vigía Farm Collection" and "Panarchy, Learning, and Transformation on the Great River of Two Hearts."
Ernest Hemingway and His Relationship with Geography, and Hemingway's Anti-Fascist Struggle will be other investigations highlighting the author of The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
This journey through the life and work of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature includes a tour of Hemingway's Havana, 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 confronting 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 conclusion of A Moveable Feast and the meeting between Fidel Castro and Hemingway in Havana on May 15, 1960. (PL) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)
