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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.
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Emma Richler (born 1961) is a British/Canadian writer....
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Jews and Judaism in Montreal. Montreal in fiction. Canadian...
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Canadian novels by writer. 20th-century Canadian novels.
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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.
Apr 4, 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.
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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 roots of...
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.
