Nobel laureate

Ernest 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”

Prize motivation

“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”

The Swedish Academy awarded Ernest Hemingway the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.

Public-domain works by Ernest Hemingway

Sources & data

  • Nobel Prize API (CC0).