Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)

Awarded the Prize “for his y 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.”

American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office and later became a reporter. During the twenties of the last century, he began to write. Hemingway committed suicide with his favorite shotgun at his home in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
Major Works:
In Our Time (1924); The Sun Also Rises (1926); A Farewell to Arms (1929); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); The Old Man and the Sea (1952)