Arts and Literature of Cuba

Did You Know? A merican author Ernest Hemingway maintained a home in Cuba from the late 1930s until his death in 1961. He felt strongly about the island—in a speech accepting the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, he dedicated the award to the “people of Cuba”—and Cubans con- tinue to hold Hemingway in high esteem. Hemingway worked on some of his most famous novels at this desk on his Cuban farm, Finca Vigia, including For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).

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Arts and Literature of Cuba