The following is a guest post by João Cerqueira, author of The Tragedy of Fidel Castro. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. It was through Portuguese writers – Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Lobo Antunes – that I learned to write. Hence my belief that form – that is, command of language – is as or more…
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Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway’s Documents Found in Cuba Have Been Digitized
In October 2011, I had read an article in Vanity Fair that detailed how Jenny Phillips, the granddaughter of Maxwell Perkins, Hemingway’s editor, orchestrated the rescue of documents stored in the author’s Cuban home, la Finca Vigia. I found it fascinating that there were still papers Hemingway wrote that nobody had seen. On February 10, 2014, a New York Times article announced that these documents have been digitized and are now…
Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway and Cuba
A few weeks ago, I was on vacation in Cuba, the very country Ernest Hemingway fell in love with. He started going there in 1932 because he loved fishing. He first lived in the Ambos Mundos Hotel in Habana Vieja from 1932 to 1939. He later bought La Finca Vigia, a house located close to La Habana in San Francisco de Paula where he lived until the Cuban revolution in 1960. In…