The Fixer (novel)

The Fixer (novel)
First edition
AuthorBernard Malamud
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date
1966
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Preceded byIdiots First (1963) 
Followed byPictures of Fidelman (1969) 

The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.[1] It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (his second)[2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[3]

The Fixer provides a fictionalized version of the Beilis case. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Jew unjustly imprisoned in Tsarist Russia. The "Beilis trial" of 1913 caused an international uproar and Beilis was acquitted by a jury.

The book was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name starring Alan Bates (Yakov Bok) who received an Oscar nomination.

  1. ^ Freemont-Smith, Eliot (August 29, 1966). "Yakov's Choice". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "National Book Awards – 1967". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
    (With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  3. ^ "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-30.