An old man and a plea: Hemingway’s wish for stage version of book fulfilled

The American novelist’s biographer, aged 101, has written a new play based on The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer and a Nobel prize for The Old Man and the Sea, and his 1952 novella is still regarded as a classic of world literature. Yet the great American writer remained unsatisfied with its legacy and always hoped to see a faithful stage or screen version made.

Now, six and a half decades on, a close friend whom Hemingway once asked to adapt the story for him has made good on his promise. The journalist and playwright AE Hotchner, the writer’s confidant and fishing companion in Cuba during the period in which the novella was written, has created a stage version with his son.

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