Critically-acclaimed debut author Tommy Orange is the winner of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel There There (Knopf), PEN America announced today. Honoring a distinguished first novel, Tommy Orange will receive $25,000 underwritten by the Hemingway Family and the Hemingway Foundation, as well as a month-long Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, a retreat for artists and writers, valued at $10,000.
After nearly twenty years, the Clarke Historical Library’s Hemingway Collection opened in February 2019, and will run through September. For more information about the exhibit, including its catalog, please see the exhibit booklet.
A stage adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea will premiere Friday, February 1st, 2019. Adapted by A.E. Hotchner and his son Tim Hotchner, directed by Ronald Allan-Lindblom, and starring Anthony Crivello as Santiago and David Cabot as Hemingway, the play will debut at Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse. The production will run through February 17th, 2019.
This year, the following debut novels have been selected as finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award: Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater; Meghan Kenny’s The Driest Season: A Novel; Ling Ma’s Severance; Tommy Orange’s
The Hemingway Society holds biennial conferences in places significant to Ernest Hemingway, in both U.S. and international venues. The conferences feature scholarly and creative treatments of his life and work.
Historian Marino Perissinotto has identified the WWI soldier who inadvertently saved Hemingway’s life by taking the brunt of a mortar explosion on July 8th, 1918. By whittling down James McGrath Morris’s list of 18 candidates (see his postscript to The Ambulance Drivers), Perissonotto hypothesizes that Fedele Temperini, a 26-year-old soldier from Montalcino, was Hemingway's savior along the Piave. For more details about Temperini and Perissinotto's historical research, see Morris’s recent
The Florida Hemingway Society will Sponsor Panels during the June 20-23, 2019 17th International Colloquium Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, Cuba.
Carl Eby is Professor of English at Appalachian State University. His publications include Hemingway’s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood and Hemingway’s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World (co-edited with Mark Cirino)and Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. He served as Foundation Treasurer for four terms between 2007 and 2019, and directed the Society’s 2006 conference in Málaga and Ronda, Spain. He has also served for many years on the JFK Hemingway Gant Liaison Committee, the Founder’s Grant Committee, and as a reader for The Hemingwa
