With this blog I intend to help students improve their English skills. However, I will write a little about Portugal. I love the English language, but I am also very proud of my mother tongue and of my cultural heritage.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Ernest Hemingway: a great novelist (born in this week)
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.and died on July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho. American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.
Source: http://www.biography.com/articles/Ernest-Hemingway-9334498
Watch a video about his life!
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