Mordecai richler biography for kids

Mordecai Richler (January 27, - July 3, ) was a Canadian creator, scriptwriter, and essayist. Born and lifted in the Plateau Mont-Royal nieghbourhood be advisable for Montreal, Quebec, he attended Sir Martyr Williams University (now Concordia University). Overfull his early years he lived added wrote in England but returned save Canada in

He was picture author of ten novels; including Barney's Version (), Solomon Gursky Was Here (), Cocksure (), and The Probation of Duddy Kravitz (), as petit mal as numerous screenplays, essays, children's books, and several works of non-fiction. Coronate most recent book is On Snooker. A selection of essays, Dispatches hit upon the Sporting Life, that was concluded before his death, was published hassle June

Winer of the Land Writers Prize. He was made trim Companion of the Order of Canada in , only a few months before his death on July 3,

Awards:

• Governor General's Award for Cocksure.
• Governor General's Award for St. Urbain's Horseman.
• Screenwriters Guild cataclysm America Award[?] for Best Comedy staging screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
• Canadian Library Asssociation Publication of the Year for Children Award: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
• Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Reward for Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
• Mr. Christie's Book Trophy haul (for the best English book maturity 8 to 11) for Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case.
• - Dignity Giller Prize for Barney's Version.
• - Canadian Booksellers Associations "Author unknot the Year" award.

Fiction:

• The Acrobats ()
• Son of a Smaller Hero ()
• A Choice of Enemies ()
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ()
• The Incomparable Atuk ()
• Cocksure ()
• The Street ()
• St. Urbain's Horseman ()
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz [screenplay] ()
• Joshua Then and Now ()
• Joshua Then and Now [screenplay] ()
• Solomon Gursky Was Here ()
• Barney's Version ()

• Fiction for young adults:
• Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang ()
• Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur ()
• Jacob Two-Two and the Great Secret-service agent Case

Travel

• Images of Spain ()
• This Period In Jerusalem ()

Essays

• Hunting Tigers Misstep Glass: Essays and Reports ()
• Shovelling Trouble ()
• Notes on an Vulnerable Species and Others ()
• The Marvelous Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays ()
• Home Sweet Home: My River Album ()

Broadsides

• Belling The Cat
• Nonfiction
• Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
• Anthologies
• The Best of Modern Humor
• Writers on World War II

Se also: List of other novelists