Cuba makes Hemingway trove available to US
Cuba makes Hemingway trove available to US
HAVANA - Agence France-Presse
February/19/2014
Cuba has released to U.S. researchers copies of more than 2,000 documents related to Ernest Hemingway, media reported Feb. 18 in Havana, the American literary giant's home during the 1940s and 1950s.
"More than 2,000 documents held at the Finca Vigia Museum in Havana are now available for the first time for researchers in the United States after having been digitized and sent to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum," the Cuba Contemporanea magazine wrote on its website.
Now a museum, Finca Vigia, which means "lookout house" is located in the town of San Francisco de Paula just outside Havana. It was Hemingway's home during much of his more than two-decade-long residence in Cuba.
Among the treasures now accessible to U.S. scholars at the Kennedy Library in Boston is the 1954 telegram from the Nobel Prize Committee in Sweden informing Hemingway that he had just been awarded its prestigious literature prize.
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