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			Bernard Malamud

	
	Born	(1914-04-26)April 26, 1914
Brooklyn, New York, United States
	Died	March 18, 1986(1986-03-18) (aged 71)
Manhattan, New York, United States
	Occupation	Author, teacher
	Nationality	American
	Period	1940–1985
	Genre	Novel, short story
	Notable works	The Natural, The Fixer

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award[1] and the Pulitzer Prize.[2]

Contents


	1 Biography
	2 Writing career
	3 Themes
	4 Posthumous tributes
	4.1 Centenary



	5 Awards
	6 Bibliography
	6.1 Novels
	6.2 Story collections
	6.3 Short stories
	6.4 Books about Malamud



	7 References
	8 Sources
	9 External links





Biography[edit]

Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bertha (née Fidelman) and Max Malamud, Russian Jewish immigrants. A brother, Eugene, born in 1917, suffered from mental illness,[3] lived a hard and lonely life and died in his fifties. Malamud entered adolescence at the start of the Great Depression. From 1928 to 1932, Bernard attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.[4] During his youth, he saw many films and enjoyed relating their plots to his school friends. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin's comedies. Malamud worked for a year at $4.50 a day (equivalent to $84 in 2019) as a teacher-in-training, before attending college on a government loan. He received his B.A. degree from City College of New York in 1936. In 1942, he obtained a master's degree from Columbia University, writing a thesis on Thomas Hardy. He was excused from military service in World War II because he was the sole support of his widower father. He first worked for the Bureau of the Census in Washington D.C., then taught English in New York, mostly high school night classes for adults.[citation needed]

Starting in 1949, Malamud taught four sections of freshman composition each semester at Oregon State University (then Oregon State College, or OSC), an experience fictionalized in his 1961 novel A New Life. Because he lacked the Ph.D., he was not allowed to teach literature courses, and for a number of years his rank was that of instructor. In those days, OSC, a land grant university, placed little emphasis on the teaching of humanities or the writing of fiction. While at OSC, he devoted three days out of every week to his writing, and gradually emerged as a major American author. In 1961, he left OSC to teach creative writing at Bennington College, a position he held until retirement. In 1967, he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1942, Malamud met Ann De Chiara (November 1, 1917 – March 20, 2007), an Italian-American Roman Catholic, and a 1939 Cornell University graduate. They married on November 6, 1945, despite the opposition of their respective parents. Ann typed his manuscripts and reviewed his writing. Ann and Bernard had two children, Paul (b. 1947) and Janna (b. 1952). Janna Malamud Smith is the author of a memoir about her father, titled My Father Is A Book.[5]

Malamud was Jewish, an agnostic, and a humanist.[6]

Malamud died in Manhattan in 1986, at the age of 71.[7] He is buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In his writing, Malamud depicts an honest picture of the despair and difficulties of the immigrants to America, and their hope of reaching their dreams despite their poverty.


Writing career[edit]

Malamud wrote slowly and carefully; he was not especially prolific. He is the author of eight novels[8] and four collections of short stories. The posthumously published Complete Stories  contains 55 short stories and is 629 pages long.  Maxim Lieber served as his literary agent in 1942 and 1945.

He completed his first novel, The Light Sleeper, in 1948, but later burned the manuscript. His first published novel was The Natural (1952), which has become one of his best remembered and most symbolic works. The story traces the life of Roy Hobbs, an unknown middle-aged baseball player who achieves legendary status with his stellar talent. This novel was made into a 1984 movie starring Robert Redford (described by the film writer David Thomson as "poor baseball and worse Malamud").[citation needed]

Malamud's second novel, The Assistant (1957), set in New York and drawing on Malamud's own childhood, is an account of the life of Morris Bober, a Jewish immigrant who owns a grocery store in Brooklyn. Although he is struggling financially, Bober takes in a drifter of dubious character. This novel was quickly followed by The Magic Barrel, his first published collection of short stories (1958). It won Malamud the first of two National Book Awards that he received in his lifetime.[9]

In 1967, his novel The Fixer, about anti-semitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[1][2] His other novels include Dubin's Lives, a powerful evocation of middle age which uses biography to recreate the narrative richness of its protagonists' lives, and The Tenants, perhaps a meta-narrative on Malamud's own writing and creative struggles, which, set in New York City, deals with racial issues and the emergence of black/African American literature in the American 1970s landscape.

Malamud was renowned for his short stories, often oblique allegories set in a dreamlike urban ghetto of immigrant Jews. Of Malamud, Flannery O'Connor wrote: "I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself." He published his first stories in 1943, "Benefit Performance" in Threshold and "The Place Is Different Now" in American Preface. In the early 1950s, his stories began appearing in Harper's Bazaar, Partisan Review, and Commentary.


Themes[edit]

Writing in the second half of the twentieth century, Malamud was well aware of the social problems of his day: rootlessness, infidelity, abuse, divorce, and more. But he also depicted love as redemptive and sacrifice as uplifting. In his writings, success often depends on cooperation between antagonists. For example, in "The Mourners" landlord and tenant learn from each other's anguish. In "The Magic Barrel", the matchmaker worries about his "fallen" daughter, while the daughter and the rabbinic student are drawn together by their need for love and salvation.[10]


Posthumous tributes[edit]

  
Grave of Bernard Malamud at Mount Auburn Cemetery



Philip Roth: "A man of stern morality," Malamud was driven by "the need to consider long and seriously every last demand of an overtaxed, overtaxing conscience torturously exacerbated by the pathos of human need unabated."[11]

Saul Bellow, also quoting Anthony Burgess: "Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us. Malamud in his novels and stories discovered a sort of communicative genius in the impoverished, harsh jargon of immigrant New York. He was a myth maker, a fabulist, a writer of exquisite parables. The English novelist Anthony Burgess said of him that he 'never forgets that he is an American Jew, and he is at his best when posing the situation of a Jew in urban American society.' 'A remarkably consistent writer,' he goes on, 'who has never produced a mediocre novel .... He is devoid of either conventional piety or sentimentality ... always profoundly convincing.' Let me add on my own behalf that the accent of hard-won and individual emotional truth is always heard in Malamud's words. He is a rich original of the first rank."
[Saul Bellow's eulogy to Malamud, 1986]


Centenary[edit]

  
A signed copy of Malamud's book The Natural held by Oregon State University.[12]



There were numerous tributes and celebrations marking the centenary of Malamud's birth (April 26, 1914).[13][14] To commemorate the centenary, Malamud's current publisher (who still keeps most of Malamud's work in print) published on-line (through their blog) some of the "Introductions" to these works.[15] Oregon State University announced that they would be celebrating the 100th birthday "of one of its most-recognized faculty members" (Malamud taught there from 1949 to 1961).[16]

Media outlets also joined in the celebration. Throughout March, April, and May 2014 there were many Malamud stories and articles on blogs, in newspapers (both print and on-line), and on the radio. Many of these outlets featured reviews of Malamud's novels and stories, editions of which have recently been issued by the Library of America.[17] There were also many tributes and appreciations from fellow writers and surviving family members. Some of the more prominent of these kinds of tributes included those from Malamud's daughter, from Malamud's biographer Philip Davis,[18] and from fellow novelist and short story writer Cynthia Ozick.[19] Other prominent writers who gathered for readings and tributes included Tobias Wolff, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore.[20]


Awards[edit]

	1958 National Jewish Book Award, winner for The Assistant[21][22]
	1959 National Book Award for Fiction, winner for The Magic Barrel[9]
	1967 National Book Award for Fiction, winner for The Fixer[1]
	1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, winner for The Fixer[2]
	1969 O. Henry Award, winner for "Man in the Drawer" in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1968[23]
	1984 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, runner-up for The Stories


PEN/Malamud Award

Given annually since 1988 to honor Malamud's memory, the PEN/Malamud Award recognizes excellence in the art of the short story. The award is funded in part by Malamud's $10,000 bequest to the PEN American Center. The fund continues to grow thanks to the generosity of many members of PEN and other friends, and with the proceeds from annual readings. Past winners of the award include John Updike (1988), Saul Bellow (1989), Eudora Welty (1992), Joyce Carol Oates (1996), Alice Munro (1997), Sherman Alexie (2001), Ursula K. Le Guin (2002), and Tobias Wolff (2006).


Bibliography[edit]

	For a more comprehensive listing of works, see Bernard Malamud bibliography


Novels[edit]

	The Natural (1952)
	The Assistant (1957)
	A New Life (1961)
	The Fixer (1966)
	Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969)
	The Tenants (1971)
	Dubin's Lives (1979)
	God's Grace (1982)


Story collections[edit]

	The Magic Barrel (1958)
	Idiots First (1963)
	Rembrandt's Hat (1974)
	The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983)
	The People and Uncollected Stories (includes the unfinished novel The People) (1989)
	The Complete Stories (1997)


Short stories[edit]

	"The First Seven Years" (1958)
	"The Mourners" (1955)
	"The Jewbird" (1963)
	"The Prison" (1950)
	"A Summer's Reading"
	"Armistice"


Books about Malamud[edit]

	Smith, Janna Malamud. My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud. (2006)
	Davis, Philip. Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life. (2007)
	Swirski, Peter. "You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me or Altruism, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's Grace". American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History.  New York, Routledge 2011.


References[edit]


	^ a b c "National Book Awards – 1967". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30. 
(With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

	^ a b c "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-30.

	^ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/books/bernard-malamuds-daughter-finally-tells-his-secrets.html

	^ Boyer, David. "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: FLATBUSH; Grads Hail Erasmus as It Enters a Fourth Century", The New York Times, March 11, 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-01.

	^ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/obituaries/22malamud.html

	^ Markose Abraham (2011). American Immigration Aesthetics: Bernard Malamud and Bharati Mukherjee As Immigrants. AuthorHouse. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4567-8243-6. An agnostic humanist, Malamud has unflinching faith in man's ability to choose and make 'his own world' from the 'usable past'.

	^ 
Rothstein, Mervyn (March 19, 1986). "Bernard Malamud Dies at 71" (obituary). The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-30.

	^ Malamud, Bernard. The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989

	^ a b "National Book Awards – 1959". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30. 
(With essays by Liz Rosenberg and Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

	^ "Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)". Contributing Editor: Evelyn Avery(?). Georgetown University course materials(?).

	^ Roth, Philip, "Pictures of Malamud", The New York Times, April 20, 1986. Retrieved 2008-07-15.

	^ 
"Inscribed, first-edition copy of acclaimed novel, "The Natural," donated to OSU". Oregon State University. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

	^ 
"Bernard Malamud at 100". 92Y. Archived from the original on 2014-04-22.

	^ 
"Bernard Malamud Tribute, Thursday May 1, 2014 (video)". Center for Fiction. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014.

	^ 
"Bernard Malamud Centenary - Work in Progress". Work in Progress.

	^ 
"OSU to celebrate 100th birthday of former faculty member Bernard Malamud - News & Research Communications - Oregon State University".

	^ 
James Campbell (21 March 2014). "Book Review: Library of America's Bernard Malamud volumes". WSJ.

	^ 
"Fuse Interview: Jewish-American Writer Bernard Malamud at 100 — Appreciating the Beauty of the Ethical".

	^ 
Ozick, Cynthia (March 13, 2014). "Judging the World: Library of America's Bernard Malamud Collections". The New York Times.

	^ 
"Episode 40 – The Legacy of Bernard Malamud | PEN / Faulkner". www.penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

	^ 
"National Jewish Book Award past winners". jewishbookcouncil.org. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2019.

	^ 
"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-19.

	^ 
"The O. Henry Prize Past Winners". Randomhouse.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017.




Sources[edit]

	Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004.
	Contemporary Literary Criticism
	Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 28: Twentieth Century American-Jewish Fiction Writers. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Daniel Walden, Pennsylvania State University. The Gale Group. 1984. pp. 166–175.
	Smith, Janna Malamud. My Father Is a Book. Houghton-Mifflin Company. New York: New York. 2006
	Mark Athitakis, "The Otherworldly Malamud", Humanities, March/April 2014 | Volume 35, Number 2


External links[edit]

		Wikiquote has quotations related to: Bernard Malamud


	
Daniel Stern (Spring 1975). "Bernard Malamud, The Art of Fiction No. 52". The Paris Review.
	The Bernard Malamud Papers at Oregon State University
	Bernard Malamud on IMDb
	
Clark, Suzanne. "Bernard Malamud". The Oregon Encyclopedia.
	Works by Bernard Malamud at Open Library 


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Works by Bernard Malamud

	Novels	
	The Natural (1952)
	The Assistant (1957)
	A New Life (1961)
	The Fixer (1966)
	Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969)
	The Tenants (1971)
	Dubin's Lives (1979)
	God's Grace (1982)




	Short story collections	
	The Magic Barrel (1958)
	Idiots First (1963)
	Rembrandt's Hat (1974)
	The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983)
	The People and Uncollected Stories (1989)
	The Complete Stories (1997)




	Short stories	
	"The Mourners" (1955)
	"The Jewbird" (1963)
	"The Prison" (1950)
	"A Summer's Reading"
	"Armistice"




	Collections	
	Novels and Stories of the 1940s & 50s (2014)
	Novels and Stories of the 1960s (2014)







	
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

	1918–1925	
	His Family  by Ernest Poole (1918)
	The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919)
	The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921)
	Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922)
	One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923)
	The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924)
	So Big by Edna Ferber (1925)




	1926–1950	
	Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926)
	Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927)
	The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928)
	Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929)
	Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930)
	Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931)
	The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932)
	The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933)
	Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller (1934)
	Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935)
	Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (1936)
	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937)
	The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938)
	The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)
	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940)
	In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942)
	Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943)
	Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944)
	A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945)
	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947)
	Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1948)
	Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (1949)
	The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1950)




	1951–1975	
	The Town by Conrad Richter (1951)
	The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1952)
	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)
	A Fable by William Faulkner (1955)
	Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (1956)
	A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958)
	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (1959)
	Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (1960)
	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961)
	The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (1962)
	The Reivers by William Faulkner (1963)
	The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (1965)
	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966)
	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967)
	The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1968)
	House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969)
	The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford (1970)
	Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972)
	The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973)
	No award given (1974)
	The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)




	1976–2000	
	Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976)
	No award given (1977)
	Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978)
	The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979)
	The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980)
	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981)
	Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982)
	The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983)
	Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984)
	Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985)
	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986)
	A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1987)
	Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)
	Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989)
	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
	Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991)
	A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992)
	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993)
	The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994)
	The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995)
	Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996)
	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1997)
	American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1998)
	The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999)
	Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)




	2001–present	
	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)
	Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002)
	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
	The Known World  by Edward P. Jones (2004)
	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005)
	March by Geraldine Brooks (2006)
	The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2008)
	Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009)
	Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010)
	A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2011)
	No award given (2012)
	The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2013)
	The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2014)
	All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2015)
	The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)
	The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2017)
	Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2018)
	The Overstory by Richard Powers (2019)
	The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2020)







	
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National Book Award for Fiction (1950–1974)

	
	The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (1950)
	Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (1951)
	From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1952)
	Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953)
	The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954)
	A Fable by William Faulkner (1955)
	Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara (1956)
	The Field of Vision by Wright Morris (1957)
	The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (1958)
	The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1959)
	Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (1960)
	The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (1961)
	The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1962)
	Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers (1963)
	The Centaur by John Updike (1964)
	Herzog by Saul Bellow (1965)
	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966)
	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967)
	The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (1968)
	Steps by Jerzy Kosiński (1969)
	them by Joyce Carol Oates (1970)
	Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (1971)
	The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1972)
	Chimera by John Barth (1973)
	Augustus by John Williams (1973)
	Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1974)
	A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1974)




	
	Complete list
	(1950–1974)
	(1975–1999)
	(2000–2024)







	
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Recipients of the Mondello Prize

	Single Prize for Literature: Bartolo Cattafi (1975) • Achille Campanile (1976) • Günter Grass (1977)

	Special Jury Prize: Denise McSmith (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • Jurij Trifonov (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • Wang Meng (1987) • Mikhail Gorbaciov (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) • Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995) • Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • Francesco Burdin (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) • Marina Rullo (2006) • Andrea Ceccherini (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • Francesco Forgione (2010)

	First narrative work: Carmelo Samonà (1978) • Fausta Garavini (1979)

	First poetic work: Giovanni Giuga (1978) •  Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979)

	Prize for foreign literature: Milan Kundera  (1978) • N. Scott Momaday (1979) • Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) • Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)

	Prize for foreign poetry: Jannis Ritsos (1978) • Joseph Brodsky (1979) • Juan Gelman (1980) • Gyula Illyés (1981)

	First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985) • Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986) • Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • Anna Cascella (1991) • Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993) • Ernesto Franco (1994) • Roberto Deidier (1995) • Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) • Alba Donati (1998) • Paolo Febbraro (1999) • Evelina Santangelo (2000) • Giuseppe Lupo (2001) • Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003) • Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) • Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) • Francesco Fontana (2006) • Paolo Fallai (2007) • Luca Giachi (2008) • Carlo Carabba (2009) • Gabriele Pedullà (2010)

	Foreign author: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Vojnovič (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • Viktor Erofeev (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)

	Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • Oreste del Buono (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995) • Nico Orengo (1996) • Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • Roberto Alajmo (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010) • pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013) • pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)

	"Five Continents" Award: Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992) • Kenzaburō Ōe (1993) • Stephen Spender (1994) • Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996) • Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)

	"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award: Dacia Maraini (1999), Premio Palermo ponte per il Mediterraneo Alberto Arbasino (2000)

	"Ignazio Buttitta" Award: Nino De Vita (2003) • Attilio Lolini (2005) • Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006) • Silvia Bre (2007)

	Supermondello Tiziano Scarpa (2009) • Michela Murgia (2010) • Eugenio Baroncelli (2011) • Davide Orecchio (2012) • Valerio Magrelli (2013) • Giorgio Falco (2014) • Marco Missiroli (2015) • Romana Petri (2016) • Stefano Massini (2017)

	Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010) • Antonio Calabrò (2011)

	Poetry prize: Antonio Riccardi (2010)

	Translation Award: Evgenij Solonovic (2010)

	Identity and dialectal literatures award: Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010)

	Essays Prize: Marzio Barbagli (2010)

	Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011)

	Mondello Youths Award: Claudia Durastanti (2011) • Edoardo Albinati (2012) • Alessandro Zaccuri  (2017)

	"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011)

	Prize for Literary Criticism: Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • Enrico Testa (2014) • Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • Antonio Prete (2017)

	Award for best motivation: Simona Gioè (2012)

	Special award for travel literature: Marina Valensise (2013)

	Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014)




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