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Arts and Literature of Cuba
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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).