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Facts about The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Santiago's young companion and admirer in The Old Man and the Sea is a boy named Manolin, who was forbidden by his parents from fishing with the old man.
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Widely considered Hemingway's masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea is set off the coast of Cuba near the village of Cojímar.
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First published as the lead story in Life magazine, The Old Man and the Sea sold over five million copies of that issue within two days.
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Hemingway's novella follows an aging Cuban fisherman named Santiago who struggles alone at sea with a giant marlin for three days.
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Published in 1952, The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributed to Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.