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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.
Oct 18, 2011 · Mordecai Richler, CC, novelist, essayist, social critic (born 27 January 1931 in Montréal, QC; died 3 July 2001 in Montréal, QC).
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.
Jul 3, 2001 · Mordecai Richler. Born. in Montréal, Québec, Canada. January 27, 1931. Died. July 03, 2001. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Working-class Jewish background based novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horseman (1971), of Canadian writer Mordecai Richler.
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...
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.
Quick Reference. (1931–2001), Canadian novelist and screenwriter, born in Montreal, resident in Britain 1959–72. His first novel, The Acrobats (1954) was followed by others, including notably, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), which describes a Jewish boyhood in Montreal.
