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Meanwhile, Ernest Hemingway, reached by telephone at his home in Cuba, called Laxness "one of the most outstanding and least recognized" literary figures of his day. Last year's Nobel laureate in literature said that he had read Laxness" works, three of which had been translated from the Icelandic, and that the author "certainly deserved" the prize this year...
...care about his politics one bit," Hemingway went on to say of the Icelandic author, who has taken part in Communist-sponsored peace movements of recent years but has never actually joined the party. The American writer repeated his comment of last year that he would like to see Ezra Pound win the literary honor, but he reaffirmed that he was satisfied by the choice of Laxness...
...Hemingway told of how the Swedish consul in Cuba called him at his home in San Francisco do Paula yesterday as soon as news of the Nobel judges' decision had arrived. He then immediately sent Laxness a telegram saying "Truest congratulations and best wishes to an excellent writer...
Concerning his own literary activity, Hemingway revealed that he is now working on the 675th typewritten page of his latest book. He said that this novel would differ greatly from his last work...
...Many of the novels (A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls) and short stories (The Killers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro) of Nobel Prizewinner Ernest Hemingway have long since been translated to the screen, but 20th Century-Fox announced that Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), will finally get a movie treatment with Howard Hawks directing...