ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Old Man and the Sea was an immediate success and came to be regarded as one of Hemingway’s finest works. It was cited when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Detailed explanation-3: -28–The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded today to Ernest Hemingway. The Swedish Academy, which presents this laurel, said of the 55-year-old American author in its citation: “For his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most recently evinced in ‘The Old Man and the Sea. ‘"

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

Detailed explanation-5: -The Nobel Prize The Old Man and the Sea was selected as 1954’s ‘most outstanding work in an ideal direction’ in the literature category. In giving the award, the Nobel committee cited Hemingway’s ‘powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration.