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| Name: |
Mordecai Richler | | Birth Date: |
January 27, 1931 | | Death Date: |
July 3, 2001 | | Place of Birth: |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Place of Death: |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Nationality: |
Canadian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Mordecai Richler
5,112 words, approx. 17 pages
 "I ... feel forever rooted in Montreal's St. Urbain Street," Mordecai Richler stated in an essay, "Why I Write," collected in Notes on An Endangered Species and Others (1974): "That was my time, my place, and I have elected myself to get it right." In...
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Biography of Mordecai Richler
1,742 words, approx. 6 pages
 One of Canada's most accomplished writers, Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) produced screenplays, novels, children's literature, and essays. At the time of his death, he was acknowledged as Canada's leading curmudgeon for his witty insights on topics such...



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Mordecai Richler Quotes
471 words, approx. 2 pages
 Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter, and essayist. Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 About Richler 4 References 5 External Links // Sourced "Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with...
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Mordecai Richler Quotes
135 words, approx. 1 pages
 Mordecai Richler , CC ( January 27 , 1931 – July 3 , 2001 ) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) 1.2 Barney's Version (1997) 2 External links // Sourced The Apprenticeship...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Mordecai Richler Information
2,797 words, approx. 9 pages
 Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the...


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Elizabeth Hay wins $40,000 book prize
11/8/2007: 270 words, approx. 1 pages Elizabeth Hay, a former radio journalist who long hoped to write a novel about her "golden summer" working in northern Canada in the 1970s, won the lucrative Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Late Nights on Air.""I am very thrilled and very lucky — so...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Rachel Feldhay Brenner
16,725 words, approx. 56 pages
 In the following essay, Brenner compares Richler's dualistic representation of the Jewish response to the Holocaust in his fiction and nonfiction with the works of A. M. Klein, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Adele Wiseman.
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Critical Essay by Ada Craniford
7,969 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Craniford surveys the critical reaction to Solomon Gursky Was Here and investigates Richler's inspirations for the Gursky family. Craniford notes that the “most compelling quality of Richler's novel is the fact that it is based on and made out of other works of fact and fiction.”
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Critical Essay by Angela Robbeson
6,381 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following essay, Robbeson analyzes the function of various textual strategies in St. Urbain's Horseman, contending that each strategy provokes a specific moral judgment.


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