50 years after death, Hemingway lives on in Cuba
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HAVANA — A daiquiri at the Floridita, a mojito at the Bodeguita del Medio and an afternoon at Finca Vigia is the obligatory ritual for enthusiasts arriving in Cuba to honor the 50th anniversary of American writer Ernest Hemingway’s death.
In Cuba, devotees can walk in the footsteps of the Nobel Prize-winning author at destinations dedicated to Hemingway’s life on the island.
In Old Havana, the Hotel Ambos Mundos offers a tour of the room where Hemingway spent the first months of his 21 years in Cuba, between 1939 and 1960.
In the center of the small room, a typewriter sits as a throne while a sheet of white paper rests in the carriage. The writer’s glasses and a drawing pencil wait on the table and a fisherman’s vest and bullfighters jacket hang in the dresser. Books and magazines rest on the bed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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