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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.
Mordecai Richler has 64 books on Goodreads with 70588 ratings. Mordecai Richler’s most popular book is Barney's Version.
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.
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).
Apr 28, 2017 · Mordecai Richler, a third-generation Canadian Jew, was born at the beginning of the Depression in 1931 in Montreal, where his grandfather settled, having come to Canada in 1904 to escape the Eastern European pogroms.
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.
