The winner comes away empty-handed

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The Winner Take Nothing is a collection of short stories by the American writer Ernest Hemingway . It consists of 14 stories and was published in 1933 by Charles Scribner's Sons . After Men Without Women and In Our Time, it is Hemingway's third anthology with short stories. As in the previous collections, The Winner Misses Out any significant stories, such as A clean, well-lit café .

After this collection of short stories, Hemingway's stories were only published individually or in complete editions, such as The Fith Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories .

The German translation comes from Annemarie Horschitz-Horst and was published by Rowohlt Verlag in 1958 . The short stories had already appeared in German translation in 1951 in the anthology 49 Stories , also by Rowohlt Verlag.


The winner will receive nothing contains the following short stories:

  • After the storm
  • A clean, well-lit café
  • The Light of the World
  • God bless you masters
  • Weather change
  • Like you will never be
  • The mother of a gay man
  • A reader writes
  • Homage to Switzerland
  • Wait a day
  • A natural history of the dead
  • Wyoming wine
  • The player, the nun and the radio
  • Fathers and sons