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WELCOME TO MY PRESENTATION

Ernest Hemingway
Student : Nguyen Thuy Linh
Contents 1 Biography of Ernest Hemingway

2 Hemingway's career

3 Writing style of Hemingway

4 Some Important Works of


Hemingway

5 Achievement
1. Biography of Ernest Hemingway

• He was born in 1899, in Oak Park

• As a child, he had musical talent,


but him close to hunting, fishing,
boxing, etc.
• At the age of 18, he left school and
worked as a reporter.

• At the age of 19, he drove on the


Italian battlefields

• At the age of 20, he returned to the


United States
• At the age of 22, he got
married and worked as a
journalist

• Hemingway went through 4


marriages and had 3 sons.
2. Hemingway’s career
• In 1923, with the publishing of “The Sun Also Rises”

• A year later, the writer published a storybook

• In 1929, he published ‘A Farewell to Arms‘, a novel about the


First World War

• Since the early 30s, Hemingway's work has declined. He spent a


lot of time on bullfights in sunny Spain and on a safari in Africa.
3. Writing style of Hemingway

• Direct and minimalist , but at the


same time profoundly moving

• Hemingway termed his style the


Iceberg theory.
• applying techniques like irony, contrast,
and autobiographical details

• The recurring thematic strands in most


of the writings are love, war, wilderness,
and man versus nature.
4. Some Important Works of Hemingway

Best Novels :
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Best Novels :
A Farewell to Arms ( 1929)
Best Novels :
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Best Novels :
The Old Man and the Sea
( 1952)
Other works :
• Indian Camp
• True at First Light
• The Killers
• The Short Happy Life of
Francis Macomber
• The Snows of kilimanjaro
• The short happy
5. Achievement
• a ‘Bronze Star’ for his bravery
during ‘World War II’ in 1947.
• He won the ‘Pulitzer Prize’ in
1952 for the novel ‘The Old
Man and the Sea.’
• In 1954, he was awarded the
‘Nobel Prize in Literature’
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