Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler (January 27th 1931 - July 3rd 2001) was a author and a Canadian Scénariste (Québécois).

Born and raised in the Mile End (street St-Urbain) with Montreal, with the Quebec, he attended the University Sir George Williams (which forms now part of the Université Concordia). In the first years of its life, he lived and wrote in England but returned to the Canada in 1972.

Mordecai Richler was born with 5257, rue Saint-Urbain, in the middle of the Jewish district of Montreal which is used as decoration with its works. This district of " Mile-End" " is now affectionately called; krawitzland" where is manufactured best the Bagel of Montreal. " Mile-End" is the name given by immigrants who unloaded with the wearing of Montreal and landed further one mile, at the end of their course! The district of " Belleville" from Paris of years 30-40 was comparable with this Mile-End at the same time.

He was the author of ten novels; among which Barney' S Version (1997), Solomon Gursky Was Young stag (1989), Cocksure (1968), and The Apprenticeship off Duddy Kravitz (1959), many Scenario S, Test S, delivers S for children like the collection of “Two-Two Jacob”, and several works of nonfictional stories. Its most recent book was One Snooker . A choice of tests, dispatches of the sporting life Sporting Life , which were completed before its death, was published in June 2002.

Gaining professional authors of the Commonwealth, it was made companion of the Ordre of Canada in 2001, only a few months before its death.

Rewards

1969 - Price of the General governor for Cocksure .
1972 - Price of the General governor for St Urbain' S Horseman .
1974 - Price of Screenwriters Guild off America for the best comedy for the scenario of The Apprenticeship off Duddy Kravitz .
1976 - Price of the book of the year for the children of Canadian Library Association: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang .
1976 - Price of book of child Ruth Schwartz for Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang .
1990 - Price Hugh-MacLennan
1995 - Prix of the book of Mr. Christie (for the best English book for the children from 8 to 11 years) for Jacob Two-Two' S First Spy Puts .
1997 - the Price Giller for Barney' S Version .
1998 - Price of “author of the year” Canadian Booksellers Associations.
1998 - Price Hugh-MacLennan
2000 - Companion of the Order of Canada

Fictions

The Acrobats (1954) also published under the name '' Wicked We Love '' (July 1955)
Its off has Smaller Hero (1955)
has off Choice Enemy (1957)
The Apprenticeship off Duddy Kravitz (1959)

In the novel of Mordecai Richler and its contribution as writer, the talent is to dissect humanity and to emphasize some them through and the nonsense. This passion for the " comedy humaine" bring, for example, the novelist to describe the small financial Jews of district to the combinations " foireuses" and small the " gangsters" missed with a corrosive humor, which will be worth to him to be taxed with anti-semitism by its own community. Animated by an irrepressible taste of the provocation, Mordecai Richler délecte to criticize its own community, just as the English Canadians and the French-speaking Inhabitants of Quebec. Regarded by several as the enfant terrible of the anglophone Jewish company, Richler is enjoyed in " to stir up the hollows historiques". There is also at Richler a side of public entertainer reflecting them through company through the deforming mirror of its humor. (in) http://www.vehiculepress.com/montreal/writers/richler.html

Incomparable The Atuk (1963)
Cocksure (1968)
The Street (1969)
St Urbain' S Horseman (1971)
The Apprenticeship off Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Joshua Then and Now (1980)
Joshua Then and Now (1985)
Solomon Gursky Was Young stag (1989)
Barney' S Version (1997)

Fictions for young adults

Mordecai Richler was let convince by his/her children, Daniel, Emma, Noah, Martha and Jacob, to write something for them. The result was " Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang". This tale, which it had composed to tell it with his son per hour of sleeping, was deserved, in 1976, two Grands Prix crowning the children's books.

The text was translated into French, Finnish, German and Dutch; it was recorded, one made a film of it, one read it with the radio and one adapted it to make a musical comedy of it. The adventures of Two-Two Jacob continue in two other tales, of which most recent, " Jacob Two-Two' S First Spy Case" , the prestigious price Mr. Christie in 1995 obtained. Mordecai Richler grew in Montreal, attended the University Sir George Williams, become now the Université Concordia; he then lived several years in England, where he wrote. Having the evil of the country, “snowstorms, hockey, Sandwich with the smoked meat and lakes of mountain of its childhood”, it returned to Canada in 1972, sharing its time between Montreal and the Estrie.

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975)
Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987)
Jacob Two-Two and the Great Spy Puts

Voyages

Images off Spain (1977)
This Year In Jerusalem (1994)

Novels

Hunting Tigers Under Knell: Essays and Reports (1968)
Shovelling Disturbs (1972)
Notes one year Endangered Species and Others (1974)
The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays (1978)
Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album (1984)
Broadsides (1991)
Belling the Cat (1998)
Dispatches from the Sporting Life (2002)

Press

Belling The Cat

Nonfictional history

Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992)

The test " Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a country divisé" is appeared in French translation 1992,6 months in September after the Anglo-Canadian original version. The work lampoonist denounces inter alia things French and Quebec nationalism and in particular its linguistic laws. It is a polemical work with the squeaking humor revealed by the title even. Mordecai Richler is deeply being wary towards all nationalisms

One Snooker: The Range and the Characters Who Play It (2001)

Anthologies

The Best off Modern Humor
Writers one World War II

External bonds

Mordecai Richler enters the satire and the provocation - Files of Radio-Canada

See too

List of the Québécois authors

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