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Date with a Legend
By: Wina Acosta | Photos: Jose Tito Meriño
The Ambos Mundos Hotel, located at the intersection of Mercaderes and Obispo Streets in Old Havana, sheltered one of the most controversial writers of the 20th century. Journalist Hemingway was awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea and the following year, won the Nobel Prize for literature for the work of a lifetime.
This same hotel hosted the 13th International Colloquium dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Hemingway’s death and the official declaration of Cuban heritage for Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), the farm on the outskirts of Havana where the writer lived for 20 years.
The Ambos Mundos Hotel, located at the intersection of Mercaderes and Obispo Streets in Old Havana, sheltered one of the most controversial writers of the 20th century. Journalist Hemingway was awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea and the following year, won the Nobel Prize for literature for the work of a lifetime.
