The Assistant [antikvár]

Bemard Malamud was born on 26 April 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. He took his B .A. at the City College, N.Y. and his MA. at Columbia. After various odd jobs he began to teach in 1939. At the present time, he teaches English at Bennington College where he lives with his wife and two children. * ti In his short stories such as those in Idiots First Bemard Malamud acknowledges the influence of Chekhov, James Joyce and Hemingway. He has alsó written The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), which won the Rosenthal Award, The Magic Barrel (1958), which won the National Book Award U.S.A. for 1959, and A New Life (1961). The Fixer, his fourth növel, was widely praised when it first appeared in 1966 and won him a second National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. It was followed by Pictures of Fidelman, published in 1969, The Tenants (1971) and Rembrandt's Hat (short stories 1973). All these books have been published in Penguins. Bernard Malamud was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, U.S.A. in 1964 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967.