On this day, 72 years ago, on May 4, 1953 (March 21, 1953 in the lunar calendar), Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer Prize. Hemingway living in Havana May 4, 1953. It was announced today that Ernest Hemingway and William Inger won the Pulitzer Prize. Hemingway's first novel came out in the 1920s, while Inger's first play was completed in 1950. Hemingway won the award for the novella "The Old Man and the Sea". The novel was first published in the American magazine Life in September 1952. The novel describes a Cuban fisherman catching a big fish and hauling it to the coast. Fisherman Hemingway owns a house outside Havana. Santiago Inger's play "Picnic" in "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Three years ago, Inger's play "Come Back, Little Sheba" premiered on Broadway for the first time. "Picnic" is a story about a blogger who keeps boasting in Kansas City. The play had previously won the Drama Critics Award.