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Ernest Hemingway

American Literature

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist and journalist whose economical, understated prose style profoundly influenced twentieth-century fiction. His major novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which won the Pulitzer Prize; he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was one of the two most notable members of the Lost Generation, the community of American expatriate writers centered on 1920s Paris. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1899 1
Birth Date
1899-07-21 1
Death Year
1961 1
Death Date
1961-07-02 1
Died by suicide at his house in Ketchum, Idaho.
Award
Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) 1
Classification
Original Language
English 1
Original Language
Spanish 1
Original Language
French 1
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What did the Nobel committee honor Hemingway for?

For his mastery of narrative art and his influence on contemporary style.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Hemingway 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. The prize was not for a single book alone: the citation names the novella as the latest example of his narrative skill and adds his effect on the style of other writers.
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Source Wikipedia: Hills Like White Elephants
Source Wikipedia: The Old Man and the Sea
Source Wikipedia: The Sun Also Rises
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  • Lead section, Nobel Prize in Literature section
    for his mastery of the art of narrative, brought to its peak in The Old Man and the Sea
  • Original language statement
    Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist and journalist whose economical, understated prose style profoundly influenced twentieth-century fiction.
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Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Wikipedia: The Sun Also Rises
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The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway, following his experimental novel-in-fragments In Our Time (1925)
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