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Michael Groover, the husband of famed chef Paula Deen, was the winner among more than 100 aspiring Ernest Hemingway who, because of his physical resemblance to the legendary American author, attempted to take the title of a Key West contest, Florida, as reported by local media today
Having participated eight times in this annual contest in the honor of the author of "The Old Man and the Sea ", whose 119th birthday was celebrated last Saturday, Groover was crowned Best Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's Bar, the favorite place of the famous author when he lived on the island in the years 1930.
"I think everyone here has to pay their debts, and I have done it," Groover told the audience. As reported today by Local 10.
Attendees arrived in the Florida Keys from around the world, including Australia and Norway, and the vast majority wore beards and white hair , although others have preferred to represent a young age of the writer with black hair and mustaches.
Fourteen sympathies of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) competed on Friday, the day of the semifinals, for a place in the final of the contest of writers-like persons and Nobel Prizes
. Contest, organized by the Sosias Society of Ernest Hemingway, is one of the highlights of the "Days" dedicated to the Writer in Key West, which also includes this year a fishing tournament with wrestlers. prize for a total of $ 50,000, an exhibition in the house-museum of the author, lectures and other activities.
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