
The Old Man and the Sea
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First published: 1952
Synopsis
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
Source: Open Library (edited as needed)
My commentary
Author honors: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Awards
- Fiction (1953)Pulitzer Prize
- specifically cited in Hemingway's Nobel Prize (1954)Nobel Prize