HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 10 (ACN) Promoting the life and work of U.S. writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway based on recent research is the main goal of the 20th International Colloquium named after the 1954 Literature Nobel prizewinner, to be held on June 25 to 28 in Havana.

According to Isbel Ferreiro Garit, deputy director of the Finca Vigia Museum, the event also intends to highlight several commemorations related to the author of The Old Man and the Sea, among them the 90th anniversary of the first publication of the novel Green Hills of Africa (1935), the 85th anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and the 65th anniversary of the conclusion of A Moveable Feast (1960), as well as the important meeting he held 65 years ago with Fidel Castro Ruz.

The event will feature the presentation of research works made by scholars, academicians, university professors, and Cuban and foreign writers―including eight papers prepared by participants from Japan, Argentina, Canada and the United States―in addition to a digital version of the novel The Sun Also Rises and La Habana de Hemingway y otros relatos, by the renowned Cuban journalist and essayist Ciro Bianchi Ross.

Visits to sites where the famous American novelist left his mark, such as the restaurant Terraza de Cojimar, the Club Nautico, the bars El Floridita and Sloppy Joe’s, and Finca Vigía―his Cuban home―will also be part of the program.