Key West Crowns Winner Of Its 2022 Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Contest
Key West Crowns Winner Of Its 2022 Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Contest. Bushy-bearded lawyer Jon Avuil has been named the winner of the 2022 edition of Key West in Florida’s Ernest Hemingway lookalike competition. The island city, where the legendary author lived and wrote for most of the 1930s, celebrates his legacy each year with its Hemingway Days event. Competing for his eighth time in the contest, the 65-year-old attorney triumphed over 124 other entrants . ”Of course, every man wants to write like Hemingway,” Jon, who shares Hemingway’s passions of fishing and writing, said after his win. "He represents a lot — romance, masculinity, sports, love of the sea, love of a woman, love of children … life.” Before crowning the winner, crowds of spectators cheered enthusiastically for their favourites at Sloppy Joe's Bar, the Key West saloon where Hemingway and his cohorts frequently gathered. Although entrants could take on any guise from Hemingway’s life most sought to emulate his later-years “Papa” persona, donning full beards and sportsman’s attire. Key West’s Hemingway Days events salutes the vigorous lifestyle and literary legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author with other events including a marlin fishing contest, and a short story competition.
