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Hemingway centre opens in Havana to preserve writer's work

Cultural project in cooperation with US showcases artefacts from writer’s stay on island

A restoration centre to preserve the work of Ernest Hemingway has opened in Cuba, highlighting an area of cooperation with the US even as bilateral relations between the old cold war foes have chilled again.

Hemingway, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 1954, wrote some of his best-known works during the 21 years he lived at Finca VigĂ­a, or Lookout Farm, now a museum in San Francisco de Paula on the outskirts of Havana.

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