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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.
Nov 18, 2010 · By The CJN Admin. It has been left to Charles Foran, a Canadian novelist, journalist and book reviewer of Irish and French descent, to write what is surely the definitive biography of Canada’s most accomplished Jewish literary figure, Mordecai Richler, who died at 70 in 2001.
Mordecai Richler died on July 3, and within minutes of the announcement there was a stampede from the grand panjandrums of “CanLit” to conscript ...
Jun 29, 2024 · Mordecai Richler (born Jan. 27, 1931, Montreal, Que., Can.—died July 3, 2001, Montreal) was a prominent Canadian novelist whose incisive and penetrating works explore fundamental human dilemmas and values.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
He won the Commonwealth Prize and the Paris Review Humour Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novels Solomon Gursky Was Here and St Urbain’s Horseman. He was also nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
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Loud, abrasive, brilliant. Mordecai Richler wanted to be “an honest witness” to his time, his place. He became one of the greatest novelists in Canada and the world. Born to an immigrant Jewish family in Montreal, he escaped early to the cultural hotbed of Europe.
