I7 12.45/H04 10. The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by Hemingway 195 1 year in Cuba. First published in 1952. This novel tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman fighting a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream off the coast. This book established Hemingway's prominent position in world literature, and this novel won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.