Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

The novella, published in 1952, tells of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles to land a giant marlin. Its spare prose and themes of endurance, dignity, defeat, and human courage made it one of Hemingway’s most recognized works.

Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea. He had already won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 for the same work.

The Nobel citation referred to Hemingway’s influence on contemporary style. He is often grouped with other major American laureates, including William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, but neither of those writers authored The Old Man and the Sea.