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Diaz, who is digitalizing more than 3,000 pages of unpublished correspondence, is the curator at Hemingway's former home Finca Vigia, which Havana has turned into a museum.
"He tried to isolate himself in Cuba, but failed," she said, adding she had got "goose bumps" when the letters were discovered.
"Researchers will be able to access to Hemingway's personal documents," added the director of the museum Ada Alfonso. She said that while there were no major revelations about Hemingway's life in the letters they "give a much better idea of who Ernest Hemingway really was."
The Nobel laureate, who penned such classics as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "A Farewell to Arms," moved to Cuba in 1940 where he lived in the villa until 1960. It was there that he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea," which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
He was a frequent visitor to Havana's bars and restaurants, which are now on the top of any tourist's agenda when visiting in Cuba.
Hemingway's home was taken over by Cuban authorities, after the author committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.
Work on restoring and documenting his writing began in 2003 under a historic accord between authorities in the United States and Cuba.
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Image of Ernest Hemingway, from AFP.
"He tried to isolate himself in Cuba, but failed," she said, adding she had got "goose bumps" when the letters were discovered.
"Researchers will be able to access to Hemingway's personal documents," added the director of the museum Ada Alfonso. She said that while there were no major revelations about Hemingway's life in the letters they "give a much better idea of who Ernest Hemingway really was."
The Nobel laureate, who penned such classics as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "A Farewell to Arms," moved to Cuba in 1940 where he lived in the villa until 1960. It was there that he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea," which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
He was a frequent visitor to Havana's bars and restaurants, which are now on the top of any tourist's agenda when visiting in Cuba.
Hemingway's home was taken over by Cuban authorities, after the author committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.
Work on restoring and documenting his writing began in 2003 under a historic accord between authorities in the United States and Cuba.
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Image of Ernest Hemingway, from AFP.
