2014 Ernest Hemingway Festival: Hemingway's Cuba
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2014 Ernest Hemingway Festival: Hemingway's Cuba
Date:
September 3, 2014 - September 6, 2014
Event Description:
KETCHUM, IDAHO – The Community Library’s 2014 Ernest Hemingway Festival will take place at the Ketchum/Sun Valley Community Library from September 3–6, 2014. This year’s festival will examine Ernest Hemingway’s life in Cuba. Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 until 1960. In 1940, Hemingway and his wife Martha, purchased Finca Vigia, or “lookout house,” outside Havana, Cuba. Ernest Hemingway lived there for the next 20 years, and wrote two of his most celebrated novels: For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. A Moveable Feast was also written there. The highlights of the festival are presentations by curator of the Finca Vigía, Ada Rosa Rosales, who is traveling to Ketchum from Cuba; by Sean Poole, author of Gattorno: A Cuban Painter for the World, about Antonio Gattorno, a close friend of Ernest Hemingway; by Boise State University’s Dr. Mac Test who will present, “The Old Man and the Sea (on the Sea)”; by Martin Peterson, renowned Hemingway scholar; and by Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway.
The literary portion of the event was created in close partnership with BSU and is enhanced by presentations by selected Hemingway scholars as well as a BSU graduate student panel.
The literary portion of the event was created in close partnership with BSU and is enhanced by presentations by selected Hemingway scholars as well as a BSU graduate student panel.
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