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There was an earlier Ernest Hemingway Prize in the 1950s that may have an actual connection with Ernest Hemingway. I seem to remember reading that he set it up in Italy because he was impressed with post-war Italian fiction, esp. Elio Vittorini's novels. Vittorini's "Conversazione in Sicilia" is one of the very few books for which Hemingway wrote an introduction.
BUT the prize is now very obscure, which is strange considering how over-publicized everything relating to Hemingway has been. The only reference to the prize I can find online is to an obscure novel called "Scirocco" by Romualdo Romano which won the prize in 1951.
It would probably be hard now to write anything on Wikipedia about the prize without recourse to a lot of the dreaded "original research."
I'm writing this note just to make us all aware of this award and in the hopes that someone among our many contributors might have a reputable source on it.Pascalulu88 (talk) 02:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
