Cuba: 13th International Ernest Hemingway Colloquium Ends

Havana.- The 16th Ernest Hemingway International Conference or Colloquium, devoted to reviewing the life and work of the US Nobel Prize for literature, culminates today here with a review of your correspondence in charge of American Professor Sandra Spanier.

Director and editor of the Hemingway letters, Spanier's project based its presentation on the third volume of a collection of 17 compilations of letters recovered, and which will be progressively published by the University of Cambridge.

This inventory, collects letters written by Hemingway from 1926 until 1929, designated as a period of exceptionally productive and full of experiences in his life and career.

Furthermore the papers of professors Ricardo Koon, of Argentina, and Hideo Yanagisawa of Japan are planned for this day.

Also on this date, there is a tribute to Blas Hernández (Cayuco), a Cuban close to the author of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and presumably who first called him as Pop.

From June 15, speakers from Italy, Japan, Spain, Argentina, United States and the host country, will share presentations and research focused on the life of Hemingway as a citizen of the world, his literary work and conservation and Museology collections devoted to it.

The next Colloquium will happen from June 20 to 23, 2019 and will commemorate anniversaries 75 and 70 of the publication of party and farewell to arms, respectively.

Source: PL