Ernest Hemingway

The novella helped Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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Ernest Hemingway wrote which novel about an old fisherman named Santiago?

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea

Bonus fact: The novella helped Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Which war provides the setting for A Farewell to Arms?

Answer: World War I

Bonus fact: The novel follows an American ambulance driver in Italy.

What writing principle is associated with Hemingway's understated style?

Answer: Iceberg theory

Bonus fact: Hemingway argued that much meaning could remain beneath the surface.

Ernest Hemingway was a famous American what?

Answer: Writer

Bonus fact: Hemingway wrote novels and short stories.

Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Bonus fact: 1952 short novel by Ernest Hemingway, written between December 1950 and February 1951.

Who wrote A Farewell to Arms?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Bonus fact: 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway.

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