Spain / USA: Ernest Hemingway (centre) with Ilya Ehrenburg (left) and Gustav Regler (right) during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), c. 1937

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (1891 – 1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War). His articles on the Second World War have provoked intense controversies in West Germany, especially during the sixties.

Gustav Regler (25 May 1898 – 14 January 1963) was a German Socialist novelist. Regler was born in Merzig. He served in the Germany Infantry during the First World War, and was seriously injured; he joined the Communist Party, and spent time in the USSR. He later served as political commissar of the XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Whilst in Spain he befriended Ernest Hemingway, and was wounded at the Battle of Guadalajara.

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