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• Arts and Culture
• 05 / 27 / 2011

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11:04, May 26, 2011. Cuba will hold from June 16 to 19 an international conference devoted to Ernest Hemingway, marking the 50th anniversary of his death, the organizers said here Wednesday.

The event is organized by the Ernest Hemingway Museum in Havana, marking also the 80 years since the publication of his novel "Fiesta" and 50 years of the delivery of Hemingway's house "Finca Vigia."

Hemingway lived in "Finca Vigia" from 1939 until shortly before his death on July 2, 1961.

According to the organizers, the program of the conference includes lectures, documentary films, visits to places associated with the life of Hemingway in Cuba and documents about his relations with Cuban personalities, specially with the poet Nicolas Guillen, and the psychiatrist Franz Stettmeier.

The schedule includes talks on his plane crash, his relationship and "attitude" towards death.

Ada Rosa Alfonso, director of "Finca Vigia'', said that the meeting will be attended by U.S. experts such as Susan Wrynn, Curator of the Hemingway's collection at the Presidential Library John F. Kennedy, Walter Newman, director of the Northeast Document Conservation and Scott McClintock, from the U.S. Hemingway Society.

Cuban and U.S institutions began in 2002 collaboration to preserve Hemingway's collection of documents stored in "Finca Vigia".

But Alfonso stressed that the material aid from U.S. institutions to restore the heritage of the writer in Cuba has been " tiny" because of the U.S. economic blockade against the island.

Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel " Old Man and Sea", a story taking place in Cuba and written precisely in the farm "Finca Vigia".

Source: Xinhua at : http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/7391837.html