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Cover of The Old Man and the Sea

Fiction, Novella

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