The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel authored by Ernest Hemingway.  I have read it several times, each time in one sitting.  It is more of a novelette or extended short story in my mind.  He wrote Old Man and the Sea in 1951 while in Cuba.  It was the last major work of fiction published by Hemingway in his lifetime.  It is arguably one of his most famous works and tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. Through his struggle Santiago demonstrates the ability of the human spirit to endure hardship and suffering in order to win. In 1953 the Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and it’s authoring was cited as a contributing factor to the Nobel Committee awarding Hemingway the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.