Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Experts from the US, Japan and Cuba, among other countries, are participating in the XV International Ernest Hemingway Colloquium, held at Havana O''Farril Palace in this capital until June 21. The meeting marks the 80th anniversary of the first publication of the work 'the Green Hills of Africa', of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954, as well as 90 of his books In our time, according to organizers.
As part of the academic program is expected during the four days to confront works addressing issues related to Hemingway? career and that they will provide preservation of his heritage, they highlighted.
This edition is characterized by the large presence of US researchers and experts of the life and career of the Pulitzer (1953) Prize, told reporters the president of the organizing committee, Ada Rosa Alfonso.
The reasons are obvious, the easy relations between the two counties has allowed the participation of professionals of that North Americas nation, she argued.
In this regard, he added, we will have academicians s as speakers and observers of the work of the author of The Old Man and the Sea,coming from universities in Texas, Pennsylvania, California,Ohio,and Japan.
Prior to the Colloquium, the US artist, James Richards opened last June 4th the exhibition The Cuba of Hemingway: in Watercolors atn the Ernest Hemingway's Museum, former residence of the famous US writer.
Source: PL
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