" The old man and the sea " is a modern American fiction writer Hemingway wrote in a 1952 novella, is also the author 's last published novel. It came through, then in the international caused a strong reaction, in the literature of the time bound lifted a " hot Hemingway ". It tells the story of the old Cuban fisherman Santiago in eighty-four consecutive days, did not catch fish, and finally having caught a big Marlins, but the fish is too big, his boat at sea until three days be tired out, he killed tied the boat side, work repeatedly by the shark the attack, the last to return to Hong Kong only when the head of a fish tail and spine. It again to people confirmed Hemingway as the twentieth Century great American novelist of the unshakable status and outstanding achievement. The novel won the United States in 1953 and 1954 Pulitzer prize Nobel Prize in literature.
《老人與海》是現代美國小說作家海明威創作於1952年的壹部中篇小說，也是作者生前發表的最後壹部小說。它壹經問世，便在國際上引起了強烈的反響，在當時的文學界掀起了壹陣“海明威熱”。它講述了古巴老漁夫聖地亞哥在連續八十四天沒捕到魚的情況下，終於獨自釣上了壹條大馬林魚，但這魚實在太大，把他的小船在海上拖了三天才筋疲力盡，被他殺死綁在了小船的壹邊，在歸程中壹再遭到鯊魚的襲擊，最後回港時只剩下魚頭魚尾和壹條脊骨。它再次向人們證實了海明威作為20世紀美國傑出小說家的不可動搖的地位和卓越的功績。這篇小說相繼獲得了1953年美國普利策獎和1954年諾貝爾文學獎。