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Meeting the last Cuban fisherman to have known Ernest Hemingway

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

In Havana, one week before President Obama unthawed half a century of cold relations with Cuba, I talked to the last fisherman to have known Ernest Hemingway. Oswald Carnero came from Cojimar — where the writer kept his boat, the Pilar — and was one of the villagers to whom Hemingway dedicated his Nobel Prize after publishing The Old Man and the Sea.

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