Cuba unveils Hemingway papers, including notes on WWII sub hunt
Unpublished texts by Ernest Hemingway about the hunt for German U-boats off the Cuban coast during the Second World War are part of an important collection of the writer’s works to be released next week.
While serving on a ship tracking Nazi submarines in the Gulf of Mexico, Hemingway wrote in code about his exploits.
The notes are among 3,000 letters and other writings by the Nobel laureate to be made accessible online from Monday by curators at the writer’s former residence in Cuba, where he lived from 1939 to 1961.
Scholars and fans hoping to read some unpublished fragments of stories may be disappointed as curators at the Finca VigÍa museum in Havana say that there are not known to be any new literary texts in the collection. Among the array of documents, though, they may find clues to some previously unexplained chapters in Hemingway’s colourful life.
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While serving on a ship tracking Nazi submarines in the Gulf of Mexico, Hemingway wrote in code about his exploits.
The notes are among 3,000 letters and other writings by the Nobel laureate to be made accessible online from Monday by curators at the writer’s former residence in Cuba, where he lived from 1939 to 1961.
Scholars and fans hoping to read some unpublished fragments of stories may be disappointed as curators at the Finca VigÍa museum in Havana say that there are not known to be any new literary texts in the collection. Among the array of documents, though, they may find clues to some previously unexplained chapters in Hemingway’s colourful life.