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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
culture · American author and journalist (1899–1961) · war correspondent · screenwriter · novelist · journalist · playwright · poet · writer · short story writer · prose writer · reporter · also Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Miller Hemmingway, E. Hemmingway, Ernest M. Hemingway, Papa, Hemingway
Born 21 July 1899 · Died 2 July 1961 · Q23434
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The Germans are not successful because they are supermen. They are simply practical professionals in war who have abandoned all the old theories . . . and who have developed the best practical use of weapons and tactics. . . . It is at that point that we can take over if no dead hand of last-war thinking lies on the high command.
we need to study and understand certain basic problems of our world as they were before Hiroshima to be able to continue, intelligently, to discover how some of them have changed and how they can be settled justly now that a new weapon has become the property of the world. We must study them more carefully than ever now and remember that no weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
“The Germans are not successful because they are supermen. They are simply practical professionals in war who have abandoned all the old theories . . . and who have developed the best practical use of weapons and tactics. . . . It is at that point that we can take over if no dead hand of last-war thinking lies on the high command.”
“It seemed to me Ernest would have approved of it all.”
“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you.”
Idealista: The secret villa that seduced Picasso and Hemingway
La Nación: Ernest Hemingway, escritor: “Son necesarios dos años para aprender a hablar y 60 para aprender a callar”
The Kyiv Independent: 'Hemingway Knows Nothing': Ukraine's writers are redefining literature of war
Lecturas: Ernest Hemingway, premio Nobel de Literatura: “Escribo cada mañana, lo antes posible tras el amanecer. Empiezas a las seis de la mañana y puedes seguir hasta el mediodía. Cuando paras, te sientes vacío y pleno a la vez”
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Yahoo: Mariel Hemingway on the mind-body connection: Why she stopped 'fixing' herself and started listening
Olive Press News Spain: FROM THE ARCHIVES: Chasing American literary titan Ernest Hemingway in the hills of Andalucia
ArchDaily: Galería de Sala de eventos L’Agora y Mediateca Ernest Hemingway / Ateliers A+ - 11
Radiomundo En Perspectiva: El robot "Curiosity" logró descender con éxito en Marte para llevar a cabo una exploración de al menos dos años" y "Se cumplieron 112 años del nacimiento del escritor estadounidense Ernest Hemingway"
The Times of India: Quote of the day by Ernest Hemingway: 'Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut' and a funny lesson on self-discipline
Revista Merca2.0: Ernest Hemingway, escritor: “Los gatos tienen una absoluta honestidad emocional; los seres humanos pueden ocultar sus sentimientos pero el gato, no”
WFLA: Tampa Bay man wins Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest
MidlandToday.ca: BEYOND LOCAL: A century after he left, Toronto is still Ernest Hemingway’s town
Yahoo: Did Ernest Hemingway Really Say "Write Drunk, Edit Sober"? Uncorking the Truth
Snopes rated the claim “Novelist Ernest Hemingway once wrote: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph from the Spanish Civil War shows famed authors George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway in close proximity.” Miscaptioned.
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However, it was argued that Hemingway never owned a Boss and that the suicide gun was actually made by W
Snopes rated the claim “Ernest Hemingway once won a bet by crafting a six-word short story.” False.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
A fossil billfish from the Danata Formation of Turkmenistan was named Hemingwaya after Hemingway, who prominently featured a marlin in The Old Man and the Sea
Confirmed that Hemingway had been diagnosed with hemochromatosis in early 1961
Awarded Florida Artists Hall of Fame (1987).
A group of Hemingway scholars gathered to assess the donated papers, subsequently forming the Hemingway Society, "committed to supporting and fostering Hemingway scholarship", publishing The Hemingway Review
And in the 1970s, she donated her husband's papers to the John F
Died 1961-07-02.
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“To be a successful father ... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“What is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.”
“If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
“Opis: rozmowa Catherine i Davida Bourne’a.”
“I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division. (ang.)”
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen”
“All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“Denerwować się to znaczy mścić się na własnym zdrowiu za głupotę innych.”
“I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
“The first draft of anything is shit”
“MY aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
“Conocer a un hombre y saber lo que tiene en la cabeza son asuntos distintos.”
“Some people when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.”
“New York Journal-American (11 July 1961)”
The Hemingways left Cuba for the last time, leaving art and manuscripts in a bank vault in Havana
And Mary decided to leave, after hearing the news that Castro wanted to nationalize property owned by Americans and other foreign nationals
Ended a period of intense activity: he finished A Moveable Feast (scheduled to be released the following year); brought True at First Light to 200,000 words; added chapters to The Garden of Eden; and worked on Islands
Bought a home overlooking the Big Wood River, outside Ketchum and left Cuba—although he apparently remained on easy terms with the Castro government, telling The New York Times he was "delighted" with Castro's overthr
And early into 1956 he was bedridden with a variety of illnesses
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea,</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.
Awarded National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1954).
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1954).
When Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Old Man and the Sea (1953).
Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for The Old Man and the Sea (1953).
“the best I can write ever for all of my life”
His novel The Old Man and the Sea was published to considerable acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Hemingway and Mary traveled to Europe, staying in Venice for several months
Won Bronze Star Medal (1947).
In recognition for having been "under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an accurate picture of conditions"
“we need to study and understand certain basic problems of our world as they were before Hiroshima to be able to continue, intelligently, to discover how some of them have changed and how they can be settled justly now that a new weapon has become the property of the world. We must study them more carefully than ever now and remember that no weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”
Married Mary, who had an ectopic pregnancy five months later
Traveled to Luxembourg, in spite of illness, to report on the Battle of the Bulge
“was out of business as a writer”
Sherwood Anderson and James Joyce; in 1946 Gertrude Stein; and the following year in 1947, Max Perkins, Hemingway's long-time Scribner's editor, and friend
Hemingway went to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War, which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, written in Havana, Cuba
While he was in Spain, which became the only novel he wrote during the 1930s
Where he spent a considerable amount of time
Naming it the Pilar, and began to sail the Caribbean
“We have a fine house here, and kids are all well”
Wrote of Key West, "We have a fine house here, and kids are all well"—Mellow believes he "was plainly restless"
"as being a monument of modern decadence", and disavowed by his parents as "filth"
Hemingway and Pauline went on safari to Kenya
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
In Kansas City as "Gregory Hancock Hemingway"
Hemingway returned to the U
Of Hemingway's first novel, "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises
And a third time in June 1925; that year, they brought with them a group of American and British expatriates: Hemingway's Michigan boyhood friend Bill Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lady Duff Twysden (recently divorced), h
At Sylvia Beach's bookstore Shakespeare and Company
Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community
Won Medal of Military Valour (1917).
And said, "I'll probably go the same way
“s birth, they traveled to Wyoming, Massachusetts, and New York. On December 6, Hemingway was in New York visiting Bumby, about to board a train to Florida, when he received the news that his father Clarence had killed himself. Hemingway was devastated, having earlier written to his father telling him not to worry about financial difficulties; the letter arrived minutes after the suicide. He realized how Hadley must have felt after her own father”
Won Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915-1918.
Studied at Oak Park and River Forest High School.
Studied at James F. Byrnes High School.
Career landmark: San Fermín.
Born 1899-07-21.
In Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb just west of Chicago
And his younger siblings were Ursula in 1902, Madelaine in 1904, Carol in 1911, and Leicester in 1915
Lived with Grace's father, Ernest Miller Hall, after whom they named their first son