The prize first was given here in 1901, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish donor, the creator of dynamite. Mr. Hemingway's books are extensively read in Scandinavia. His style has served as a model for many of its young authors. The Noble Prize is worth $36,000 and the winner also gets a gold medal and an illuminated diploma. The writer drew on his experiences as a fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.