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It may not look like a literary festival, but the ghost of Hemingway stalks the bull running at the festival of San Fermin A runner dodges a bull during Pamplona's festival of San Fermin. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP A horde of people running hell for leather in front of a dozen angry-looking bulls may not look much like a literary event, but the festival of San Fermin, which opens in the small town of Pamplona in the Basque region of Spain this Sunday, is in fact something of a homage to Ernest Hemingway and the novel that made his name. The festival dates back to the 13th century, but it was Hemingway's 1926 novel Fiesta, known in the US as The Sun Also Rises,which propelled it to the forefront of the literati's collective consciousness and hefted the "running of the bulls", which forms the centrepiece of the festival,... [read full story]
