‌Appendix VI

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Fri>e acceptance speech, delivered on December 10, 19S&.

Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen:

Having no facility for speech making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric I wish to thank the administrators of the generosity of Alfred Nobel for this pri>e.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the pri>e can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

It would be impossible for me to ask the ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are in his heart. Things may not be immediately discernable in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy (ability to make magic) that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten. Writing, at its best is a lonely life. Organi>ations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of

it, each day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Again, I thank you.

‌Figure 1. Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Gutiérre>, Joe Russell, and Joe Lowe aboard the Rnita with a marlin, 1933. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.‌

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Figure 2. Ernest Hemingway’s 1shing log from 1932. Fage with notes from talks with Carlos Gutiérre> about marlin 1shing. Ernest Hemingway Collection, Oversi>e Materials, Box 1&, Folder 13, page 9, at the John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

‌Figure 3. Ernest Hemingway and Carlos Gutiérre> at the wheel of the 9ilav, 193&. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

Figure &. Hemingway’s 1shing cruiser, the 9ilav. Hemingway is standing on the dock immediately to the left of the marlin, circa 193&. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

Figure S. The 9ilav under way. Note the outriggers, which were added in April 193S. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

‌Figure G. Fauline Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, and his three sons, Jack, Fatrick, and Gregory, with four blue marlin, Brown’s Dock, Bimini, July 193S. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

‌Figure 7. Cuban 1shing skiI. Fhoto by Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

‌Figure 8. Cuban 1shermen landing a shark. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

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Figure 9. Fishermen from Cojímar, Cuba, bringing back a marlin, 19SS. Fhoto attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

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Figure 11. First manuscript page of the short story “Fursuit As Happiness.” Ernest Hemingway Collection, Manuscripts Series, Box S9, Folder 19, page 1, at the John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

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Figure 12. First page of Hemingway’s typescript of Yhe Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway Collection, Item 90, Manuscripts Series, Box 27, Folder S, page 1, at the John F. Kennedy Fresidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.

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