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Mordecai Richler CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize.
Oct 18, 2011 · A Companion of the Order of Canada, two-time winner of the Governor General’s Award (1968 and 1971), and winner of the Giller Prize, Mordecai Richler is without question one of Canada’s greatest writers.
Jun 29, 2024 · Mordecai Richler was a prominent Canadian novelist whose incisive and penetrating works explore fundamental human dilemmas and values. Richler attended Sir George Williams University, Montreal (1950–51), and then lived in Paris (1951–52), where he was influenced and stimulated by Existentialist.
Aug 18, 2020 · Mordecai Richler was a well-known author and cultural critic at an important moment of cultural nationalism in Canada. Writing with an Anglo-Montreal perspective from within the city’s Jewish community, his best-known works explore challenging moral questions through the eyes of unreliable narrators.
Jul 3, 2001 · Working-class Jewish background based novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horseman (1971), of Canadian writer Mordecai Richler.
Aug 2, 2018 · Mordecai Richler was an award-winning fiction writer. (ScottMacDonald/Canadian Press) Mordecai Richler died in 2001 and was one of Montreal's most iconic novelists. His legacy includes the...
Jul 3, 2001 · Mordecai Richler, the cranky and combative Canadian novelist and critic whose often ribald writing celebrated the bygone era of old-world Montreal while skewering bourgeois ambition,...
Jul 4, 2001 · Mordecai Richler, the cranky and combative Canadian novelist and critic whose sometimes ribald writing exposed the heart of Old World Montreal while skewering bourgeois ambition, the...
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Canada. An acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist, he was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His energetic, humorous style won him both a loyal audience and literary acclaim.
spent much of his life making gleeful digs about all the great. writers who were, as he put it, “world famous in Canada.”. Richler, by contrast, was world famous in, among other places, Italy, where his last novel, Barney’s Version, is a bestseller.
