Remembering Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway on His Birth Day

The twenty-first day of July! The year 1899 saw Ernest Miller Hemingway, the sun of creativity dawning in Oak Park, Illinois.

- PROF PK SHARMA

The recipient of two world-famous honors—the Pulitzer in 1952 and then the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 for his masterpiece "The Old Man and The Sea"—Hemingway left an indelible imprint and influence as a master craftsman and great stylist on the authors' world over, lovers of literature and journalism.

Sans an iota of doubt, Hemingway makes an interesting, absorbing, and enchanting study even to this day, whether wielding his pen as a fictionist, scribe, and short-story writer, excelling, leaving his deep footprints in these arts for more than five decades.

Apart from rendering a yeoman's contribution in the annals of fiction, short-story writing, and reporting, Hemingway is still remembered as a literary journalist. Hemingway, the fictionist and journalist, enriched these genres by evolving and inventing a sublime style of his own. Being a strong votary of laconic, simple, plain, and childlike writing style, he offered five wonderful tips: use of short sentences, short paragraphs, vigorous English, positive instead of negative, and never have four rules only for writing well.