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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.
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.
Oct 18, 2011 · Mordecai Richler. Article by Charles Foran. Published Online October 18, 2011. Last Edited March 4, 2015. Mordecai Richler, CC, novelist, essayist, social critic (born 27 January 1931 in Montréal, QC; died 3 July 2001 in Montréal, QC).
Jul 3, 2001 · About Mordecai Richler: Working-class Jewish background based novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horsema...
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...
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,...
His energetic, humorous style won him both a loyal audience and literary acclaim. 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.
