Bernard Malamud Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

1967 – National Book Award for Fiction

1967 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1969 – O. Henry Award

1988 – PEN/Malamud Award

In Saul Bellow’s words, Bernard Malamud was a writer of exquisite parables, through which he explicitly described the urban ghetto of immigrant Jews in American society. Truly, master of his profession, his outstandingly spectacular works have beautifully manifested the pathos of the immigrant Jewish Americans in the urbanized society, two National Book Awards and one Pulitzer Prize standing as a testimony of the same.

Interestingly, for Malamud, having no background in literature writing proved to be not much of a hindrance as his love for reading and writing overpowered every hurdle, encompassing him with all the talent required for writing a novel. His quest for establishing himself as a writer was promptly realized in 1952 with the release of his debut novel, The Naturals.

Ever since then, one novel after the other, he only bettered his writing capabilities and technique to appeal to a large mass of readers and critics. His masterwork came with the 1966 released novel, The Fixer for which he was bestowed with the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. This probably explains him being tagged as the best known American Jewish writers of the early 20th century! To know more about his life and profile, read on the rest of the article.