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Which American author wrote the 1951 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea,' which helped earn him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 (serialized in Life magazine); it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and the Nobel committee cited it specifically when awarding Hemingway the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
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The entire first print run of Life magazine featuring The Old Man and the Sea — 5.3 million copies — sold out within two days of publication in September 1952.
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- William Faulkner
- John Steinbeck
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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