Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler
CC
Mordecai Richler CC
	Richler in the 1960s
Born	January 27, 1931; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	July 3, 2001 (aged 70); Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Resting place	Mount Royal Cemetery
Citizenship	British subject (before 1946); Canada (after 1946); ;
Alma mater	Baron Byng High School; Sir George Williams University; ;
Occupation	Writer
Spouses	; Catherine Boudreau (m. 1954, divorced) ; Florence Isabel Mann (née Wood) (m. 1961⁠–⁠2001)
Children	Daniel; Jacob; Noah; Martha; Emma;
Relatives	Rabbi Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg (grandfather)
	Writing career
Subject	Canadian Jewish life
Notable works	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Joshua Then and Now; Barney's Version; St. Urbain's Horseman; Solomon Gursky Was Here; Jacob Two-Two; Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!;

Mordecai Richler CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for his novels set in Montreal's Jewish community; including 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. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children.

In addition to his fiction, Richler was a journalist, and his non-fiction writing included essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a book version of an essay that originally appeared in The New Yorker, generated considerable controversy.

For his literary and cultural contributions, Richler was awarded Companionship of the Order of Canada in 2001. He was also a two-time recipient of the Governor General's Award for Literature (1968 and 1971), and winner of the Giller Prize (1997). Charles Foran for Historica Canada called Richler "without question one of Canada’s greatest writers."