Ernest Hemingway Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954

On this day in 1954, Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature, an award he called "the Swedish thing" and understood as a sort of literary curse: no author who won the Nobel Prize, he believed, "ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards." Watch the clip from HEMINGWAY. #literature #nobelprize #hemingway #cuba UNUM: One nation, many stories. UNUM is a new way to explore American history through scenes selected from over 40 films by Ken Burns. We're constantly curating new topics, providing historical context for the conversations we are having today.