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CUBA / Ernest Hemingway, An American in Cuba
CUBA / Ernest Hemingway, An American in Cuba
50 years after his death, Cuba has not forgotten Ernest Hemingway. A jaunt in the footsteps of the 1954 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, from his room in the Ambos Mundos Hotel to the bars of Havana, from the fishing village of Cojimar to his house in San Francisco de Paula.
Text : Didier Forray - Photos : Patrick Forget
Text : Didier Forray - Photos : Patrick Forget
His typewriter and eyeglasses are there, sitting on the desk, as though Ernest Hemingway was going to return at any moment. 50 years after his death, the Ambos Mundos Hotel in Havana has not dared to disturb anything in room 511, the Cuban refuge for the author of “A Farewell to Arms” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
A soon as he arrived in Cuba in the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway fell in love with this island in the Caribbean. To such an extent that he purchased a house in the 1940s: the Finca la Vigía in San Francisco de Paula. His home has today been turned into a museum.
Not far from there, the fishing village of Cojimar has also become a memorial to the Nobel Prize winner for literature. It was here, during exhilarating fishing excursions, that the writer found inspiration for “The Old Man and the Sea”. When evening falls, back to Havana to haunt his favorite bars: the Bodeguita del Medio, where the mojito was invented, and La Floridita, where the Daiquiri originated. A tip: definitely order the "Papa Especial", a daiquiri created in honor of the writer.
A soon as he arrived in Cuba in the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway fell in love with this island in the Caribbean. To such an extent that he purchased a house in the 1940s: the Finca la Vigía in San Francisco de Paula. His home has today been turned into a museum.
Not far from there, the fishing village of Cojimar has also become a memorial to the Nobel Prize winner for literature. It was here, during exhilarating fishing excursions, that the writer found inspiration for “The Old Man and the Sea”. When evening falls, back to Havana to haunt his favorite bars: the Bodeguita del Medio, where the mojito was invented, and La Floridita, where the Daiquiri originated. A tip: definitely order the "Papa Especial", a daiquiri created in honor of the writer.