What is The Old Man and the Sea?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Old Man and the Sea''''' is a [[novella]] by [[Ernest Hemingway]] that was written in 1951 and then published in 1952. It is Hemingway's most famous work, and also his final work to be published while he was alive. Hemingway was awarded the [[List of Nobel Prize winners in Literature|Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1954 for this work. Hemingway wrote it while he was in [[the Bahamas]]. The work tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who catches a giant [[marlin]] in the [[Gulf Stream]]. {{lit-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Old Man and the Sea, The}} [[Category:1950s books]] [[Category:Works about old age]] [[Category:American novellas]]