Ernest Miller Hemingway

Nobel Prize in Literature 1954

“for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea,</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer. He was awarded 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, and for his influence on contemporary style.