EDINBURGH (Reuters) – She was a teenager from Dublin looking to make her name as a journalist whe
n American author Ernest Hemingway entered her life in 1959.
The young Irishwoman became his secretary and traveling companion, and after his death married his son.
Decades later, Valerie Hemingway brought her memories of daiquiris in tropical Cuba and bullfights in Spain to rainy Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital.
She teamed up with Scottish director Toby Gough and a Cuban music and dance group to recreate the Havana of the 1950s in a stage production called “Hemingway’s Havana” as part of last week’s Fringe Festival.
“Hemingway loved Cuba because it was a place where he could be anonymous,” she said in an interview with Reuters. … continue reading this entry.
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