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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.
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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Oct 18, 2011 · Mordecai Richler, CC, novelist, essayist, social critic (born 27 January 1931 in Montréal, QC; died 3 July 2001 in Montréal, QC). A singular figure in Canadian literary and cultural history, Richler remained, in the words of critic Robert Fulford , “the loyal opposition to the governing principles of Canadian culture” throughout his long ...
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...
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.
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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, the roots...
Jul 8, 2001 · Mordecai Richler. By Adam Gopnik. July 8, 2001. Mordecai Richler, who died last week, had by the end of his life become inseparable from a place, Montreal, and even a country, Canada,...
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