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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 a…
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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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“I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”
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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
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Artículo 14: La reflexión de Ernest Hemingway sobre los españoles: "Si tienen un rasgo en común es el orgullo, pero también el sentido común"
ArchDaily: Galería de Sala de eventos L’Agora y Mediateca Ernest Hemingway / Ateliers A+ - 22
Good News Network: “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
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“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.”
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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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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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newser: Ernest Hemingway's Son Was a 'Larger Than Life Paradox'
Yahoo: Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's last surviving child, dies at 97
Yahoo: Ernest Hemingway's Last Meal Was A Classic Steakhouse Dinner
Fox News: On this day in history, July 8, 1918, American Red Cross driver Ernest Hemingway is wounded in World War I
The Guardian: ‘Generous and reflective’: letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway
The Guardian: Ernest Hemingway letter about surviving plane crashes sold for $237,055
The Guardian: Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea reviewed – archive, 12 September 1952
The Guardian: Hemingway ‘wannabes’ celebrate author with lookalike contest
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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Snopes 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
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Snopes rated the claim “Ernest Hemingway once won a bet by crafting a six-word short story.” False.
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“Death in the Afternoon - Página 18, Ernest Hemingway - Simon and Schuster, 2002, ISBN 0743237145, 9780743237147, 400 páginas”
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
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Confirmed that Hemingway had been diagnosed with hemochromatosis in early 1961
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Awarded Florida Artists Hall of Fame (1987).
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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
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And in the 1970s, she donated her husband's papers to the John F
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“Hidden Name and Complex Fate”
Died 1961-07-02.
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“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”
“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.”
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“Conocer a un hombre y saber lo que tiene en la cabeza son asuntos distintos.”
“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.”
“All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
“New York Journal-American (11 July 1961)”
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
“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.”
“Opis: rozmowa Catherine i Davida Bourne’a.”
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen”
“I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“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.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“The first draft of anything is shit”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“Some people when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.”
“I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division. (ang.)”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“Denerwować się to znaczy mścić się na własnym zdrowiu za głupotę innych.”
“Tchórzostwo według Hemingwaya to klęska. Może właśnie dlatego, chcąc być wierny swojej legendzie o człowieku niezwyciężonym, 2 lipca 1961 roku pisarz przyłożył do czoła strzelbę i nacisnął oba spusty.”
“Opis: ostatnie słowa wypowiedziane do żony przed popełnieniem samobójstwa.”
“If my Valentine you won’t be,I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree. (ang.)”
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
“Kocham spać. Moje życie ma skłonność do rozpadania się na kawałki kiedy jestem obudzony.”
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective”
“Nie chciałem całować cię na pożegnanie, tylko na dobranoc, a to wielka różnica.”
“O ileż lepiej umrzeć w szczęśliwym okresie nieskażonej złudzeniami młodości, odejść w blasku światła, niż mieć ciało wyczerpane, stare i złudzenia rozbite.”
The Hemingways left Cuba for the last time, leaving art and manuscripts in a bank vault in Havana
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And Mary decided to leave, after hearing the news that Castro wanted to nationalize property owned by Americans and other foreign nationals
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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
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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
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And early into 1956 he was bedridden with a variety of illnesses
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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 Nobel Prize in Literature (1954).
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Awarded National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1954).
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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
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Leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life
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Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for The Old Man and the Sea (1953).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Old Man and the Sea (1953).
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His novel The Old Man and the Sea was published to considerable acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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To widespread acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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“the best I can write ever for all of my life”
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Hemingway and Mary traveled to Europe, staying in Venice for several months
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Won Bronze Star Medal (1947).
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In recognition for having been "under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an accurate picture of conditions"
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“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
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“Ernest Hemingway, em carta de setembro de 1945; "Hemingway and the mechanism of fame: statements, public letters ... " - Página 92, de Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman - publicado por Univ of South Carolina Press, 2005, ISBN 1570035997, 9781570035999 - 145 páginas”
Traveled to Luxembourg, in spite of illness, to report on the Battle of the Bulge
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“was out of business as a writer”
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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
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While he was in Spain, which became the only novel he wrote during the 1930s
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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
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Where he spent a considerable amount of time
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Naming it the Pilar, and began to sail the Caribbean
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Hemingway and Pauline went on safari to Kenya
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Wrote of Key West, "We have a fine house here, and kids are all well"—Mellow believes he "was plainly restless"
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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"as being a monument of modern decadence", and disavowed by his parents as "filth"
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“We have a fine house here, and kids are all well”
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In Kansas City as "Gregory Hancock Hemingway"
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Hemingway returned to the U
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“Men Without Women — сборник рассказов 1927 года.”
Of Hemingway's first novel, "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises
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And again in June 1925; that year, they brought a group of American and British expatriates: his Michigan boyhood friend Bill Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lady Duff Twysden (recently divorced), her lover Pat Guthrie, and
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“The Earnest Liberal's Lament”
“Letter (1924) to Ezra Pound; published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker, p. 113”
“Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker”
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
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“Trout Fishing in Europe", in The Toronto Star Weekly (17 November 1923)”
“Three Stories and Ten Poems — сборник 1923 года.”
“In The Toronto Star Weekly (4 March 1922)”
At Sylvia Beach's bookstore Shakespeare and Company
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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
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“Letter to his family (18 October 1918); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. It was also published in The Oak Parker (Oak Park, IL) on 16 November 1918. Only 19 years old at the time, Hemingway was recovering from wounds suffered at the front line while serving as a Red Cross volunteer.”
Won Medal of Military Valour (1917).
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“not referring to guts but to something else.”
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And said, "I'll probably go the same way
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“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”
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In Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb just west of Chicago
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Born 1899-07-21.
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And his younger siblings were Ursula in 1902, Madelaine in 1904, Carol in 1911, and Leicester in 1915
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Lived with Grace's father, Ernest Miller Hall, after whom they named their first son
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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.
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