Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant infl... more

Date of birth:

  • Jul 21, 1899

Date of death:

  • Jul 2, 1961 (age 61 years)

Place of birth:

Also known as:

  • "Papa" Hemingway,
  • Ernest Hemmingway,
  • Ernest Miller Hemingway,
  • Hemingway
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Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1954
  • "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"
  • 1953
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