Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler (1931-2001), born in Montreal, grew up on Saint-Urbain Street, in the heart of the working-class Jewish neighbourhood that would nourish all his work. The grandson of a rabbi and in break with his family's orthodoxy, he left Sir George Williams College and went to Paris at nineteen; settled in London in 1954, he lived there for eighteen years by his pen, also writing for radio, television and cinema. A polemicist against Quebec nationalism and a journalist, he returned to Montreal in 1972 and died there in 2001.

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• NovelThe Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzMordecai Richler · 1959Literature