Malamud, Bernard

Born in a family of Jewish immigrants Max Malamud and Berta Fidelman from the city of Kamenetz-Podolsky ( Khmelnitsky region ). He graduated from the Erasmus School in Brooklyn and Columbia University . In the 1940s he taught at evening school, in 1949 he took a position at the University of Oregon , in 1961 he became a teacher at Bennington College ( Vermont ), where he worked for more than 20 years. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), president of the American PEN Club ( 1979 - 1981 ).

Malamud’s first novel was The Born Master ( 1952 ). The book about the fate of a baseball player ruined by corruption prevailing in American sports immediately made the author famous. In his subsequent novel The Helper ( 1957 ) and collections of short stories The Magic Keg ( 1958 ) and First Idiots ( 1963 ), Malamud vividly depicted the life of the Jewish poor of New York. The heroes of Malamud are “ordinary people fighting to improve their lives in a world of evil fate.” The novel “Masterova” ( 1967 ) gained great fame - according to the authors of the EEE , one of the most significant works of modern American literature . The novel was written based on the case of M. Beilis . The last major work of Malamud was the fantastic apocalyptic novel “Grace of the Lord God” ( 1983 ). Creativity of Malamud is characterized by allegories, allegory , grotesque .

• A born craftsman ( Eng. The Natural , 1952)
• Assistant ( English The Assistant , 1957)
• Workshop ( Eng. The Fixer , 1966)
• Residents ( Eng. The Tenants , 1971) ^[3]
• The Life of Dyubin ( English Dubin's Lives , 1979)
• God's Grace (1982)

• Magic Barrel ( The Magic Barrel , 1958)
• Idiots First ( Eng. Idiots First , 1963)
• Rembrandt's Hat (1973)
• The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983)
• Bernard Malamud. The stories

• Twice received the award of the National Book Club (“Magic Keg” and “Workshop”)
• Pulitzer Prize Laureate .
• Laureate of the Bnei Brit Literary Prize.
• Laureate of the Literary Prize of Brandeis University .
• Laureate of the American Academic Institute of Arts, Sciences and Fiction.
• 1984 - American Literature Prize PEN / Faulkner

• Bernard Malamud on Peoples.ru
• Bernard Malamud - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
• Chronology of bernard malamud