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Facts about The Old Man and the Sea
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Adaptations of The Old Man and the Sea include a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy, who received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Santiago.
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Santiago's marlin in The Old Man and the Sea measures eighteen feet long and weighs over one thousand five hundred pounds, making it an exceptionally large Atlantic blue marlin.
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The novella's setting, the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba, was chosen by Hemingway based on his decades of fishing experience in those specific waters.
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Hemingway completed The Old Man and the Sea in 1951, and the novella won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, contributing significantly to his 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.