Talk:Leonardo Padura Fuentes

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[edit] Possible copyvio ??

This text doesn't read like an encyclopedia. Could it be taken from some copyright source ?:

"It’s not surprising, then, that Leonardo Padura’s prolific pen should take aim at the whole Hemingway-in-Cuba legend. It’s a match-up that needed to happen – hard-working Cuban author stands up to dead American icon. Native son goes toe-to-toe with celebrity expat. And yet “Adios, Hemingway”, despite the seeming threat of its knock-out title, pulls more punches than it throws at old Papa.

"Ernest Hemingway and Padura have some common traits: the beard, the occasional guayabera shirt, the keen interest in sports (Padura hoped to become a pro baseball player until he realised. he didn’t have enough strength to be a good hitter. Both men started out as journalists and let their reporter’s eye lead them to a kind of fiction that strives, above all, to tell the truth. And both men chose to live and work away from Havana’s center: Padura in the house, built by his grandfather, where he was born; Hemingway in his “Finca Vigia” (Lookout Farm), a 19th-century estate situated about 16 kilometres east of Havana. The similarities end abruptly when it comes to matters of character. The hand-written sign on Hemingways’ front gate read: "Uninvited visitors will not be received." Padura is an exceedingly generous host, a man who seems to like nothing better than devoting time to his guests, invited or not."

-- Beardo (talk) 11:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)