Facts about Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

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   A Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Hemingway in 1953 specifically for The Old Man and the Sea.

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   Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea in Cuba, drawing on his deep familiarity with the Gulf Stream and offshore fishing near Havana.

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   Santiago, the aging Cuban fisherman at the center of The Old Man and the Sea, struggles alone at sea for three days battling a giant marlin.

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   The novella first appeared in a single issue of Life magazine, which sold over five million copies within two days of publication.

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   Published in 1952, The Old Man and the Sea contributed to Hemingway receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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