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'''Bernard Malamud''' ([[April 26]], [[1914]] – [[March 18]], [[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] writer born in [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]], [[New York]] to a [[Jewish]] family.

Malamud is most renowned for his short stories, oblique allegories often set in a dreamlike urban [[ghetto]] of immigrant [[Jew]]s. His prose, like his settings, is an artful pastiche of [[Yiddish]]-[[English language|English]] locutions, punctuated by sudden lyricism. On Malamud's death, [[Philip Roth]] wrote: "A man of stern morality, [Malamud was driven by] a need to consider long and seriously every last demand of an overtaxed, overtaxing [[conscience]] torturously exacerbated by the pathos of human need unabated." His best-known novel, ''The Fixer'', won the [[National Book Award]] in [[1966]], and also the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]. Malamud's novel ''[[The Natural]]'' was made into a movie starring [[Robert Redford]].

==Bibliography==