United States: 63rd anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's death

July 2 marks the 63rd anniversary of the death of one of the greatest american novelists of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway.  teleSUR

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00:00July 2nd marks the 63rd anniversary of the death of one of the greatest American novelists

00:06of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway.

00:09On July 2nd, 1961, the American writer Ernest Hemingway passed away in the United States.

00:15He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the following year

00:20he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

00:23In 1939 he settled in Cuba, where he lived for 21 years until 1960.

00:29His relationship with the Caribbean Sea is evident in both his way of living, as he was

00:34fond of fishing, and in plots of several of his literary works.

00:39Hemingway's prose style was probably the most widely imaginated in the 20th century.

00:45He published seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two essays.

00:50The Nobel Prize winner achieved fame surpassed by few, if any, American authors in the past

00:56century.