Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. [1] His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, and the Jacob Two-Two childrens' stories. Richler's uncompromising opinions on contemporary Canada easily matched, and sometimes exceeded, the satirical sting of his fiction. Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ... January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the fourth novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ... Cover of the first American edition Barneys Version is a novel written by Canadian author Mordecai Richler, published by Knopf Canada in 1997. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...

Early years and travel

The son of a scrapyard dealer, Richler was born and raised on St. Urbain Street in Montreal, Quebec, a neighbourhood he would later immortalize in his novels. He graduated from Baron Byng High School. Richler then enrolled in Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) to study English but dropped out before completing his degree. He moved to Paris, France at age nineteen, intent on following in the footsteps of a previous generation of literary exiles. Richler returned to Montreal in 1952, working briefly at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, then moved to London, England in 1954. Worrying "about being so long away from the roots of my discontent", he returned to Montreal in 1972, but continued to spend part of each year in London. Nickname: City of Mary Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Québec Founded 1642 Established 1832  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1] [2]    - City 185. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Flower Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor Linné) Tree Yellow Birch Bird Snowy Owl Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of... Irving Layton, poet. ... Concordia University is a large urban university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, one of Montreals two universities that teach primarily in the English language (the other is McGill University). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Richler's career took off with the publication of his fourth novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in 1959. The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and the Main (St. Lawrence Street). Richler wrote poignantly of the neighbourhood and its people, chronicling the hardships and disabilities they faced as a Jewish minority.

To a middle-class stranger, it's true, one street would have seemed as squalid as the next. On each corner a cigar store, a grocery, and a fruit man. Outside staircases everywhere. Winding ones, wooden ones, rusty and risky ones. Here a prized lot of grass splendidly barbered, there a spitefully weedy patch. An endless repetition of precious peeling balconies and waste lots making the occasional gap here and there.^[1]

The 1974 movie version was directed by Richler's friend Ted Kotcheff and starred Richard Dreyfuss in his first leading role. Richler and Lionel Chetwynd co-wrote the screenplay. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 motion picture comedy/drama based upon the 1959 novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ... Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood. ... Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Oscar-winning American actor. ... Lionel Chetwynd (born January 1, 1940 in Hackney in London, England, UK) is a Canadian-American screenwriter, motion picture and television film director and producer. ...

Richler as commentator

Throughout his career, Richler wrote acerbic journalistic commentary and delighted in the role of contrarian provocateur. He was an iconoclast with little tolerance for pretense or pomposity. In a characteristic putdown, Richler called Canadian film entreprenuers "snivelling little greasers on the make."^{[citation needed]} Richler contributed to The Atlantic Monthly, Look, and The New Yorker. In his later years, Richler was a newspaper columnist for The National Post and Montreal's The Gazette. He was often critical of Quebec and Canadian nationalism. Another favorite Richler target was the government-subsidized Canadian literary movement of the 1970s and 80s. Late in life, the onetime enfant terrible seemed happy to settle into the role of curmudgeon. What never changed were Richler's caustic comments and disheveled appearance. He was more than willing to say the unsayable — though often in a weary mumble, with head bowed, hair askew and drink in hand. The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... LOOK, established at Nevers, France in 1951, was originally a ski equipment manufacturer. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... The National Post is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... The Gazette is a major English-language daily newspaper produced out of Montreal, Quebec. ... How to describe the literature of a nation is often debatable, and is also in natural flux throughout the nations history, so this beginners guide to Canadian literature will offer links to as many actual Canadian authors as possible so the reader can weigh what is being said... From the French meaning terrible child, an Enfant terrible is one whose startlingly unconventional behavior, work, or thought embarrasses or disturbs others. ...

Richler was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2001, just a few months before his death. It was an ironic finale that might have made a memorable scene in a Richler novel: a fierce critic of the Canadian establishment accepting the country's highest honour. Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ...

Proponents and critics

Many critics distinguished between Richler the author and Richler the polemicist. Richler frequently said in interviews that his goal was to be an honest witness to his time and place, and to write at least one book that would be read after his death. His work was championed by journalists Robert Fulford and Peter Gzowski, among others. Admirers praised Richler for daring to tell uncomfortable truths, and he has been described in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature as "one of the foremost writers of his generation"^[2] . A 2004 oral biography by Michael Posner was entitled The Last Honest Man. Alternate use: see Robert Fulford (croquet player) for the English croquet player. ... CBC promotional image of Peter Gzowski, circa 2000 Peter Gzowski, CC , LL.D , D.Litt (July 13, 1934 - January 24, 2002) was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio show Morningside. ...

Detractors called Richler's satire heavy-handed^{[citation needed]} and noted his propensity for recycling material, incorporating elements of his journalism into later novels.^[3] Some critics thought Richler more adept at sketching striking scenes than crafting coherent narratives.^{[citation needed]} Richler's ambivalent relationship with Montreal's Jewish community was captured in Mordecai and Me, a book by Joel Yanofsky published in 2003.

Richler's most frequent conflicts were with the Jewish community,^[4] English Canadian nationalists, and Quebec nationalists. ^[5]

Richler's long-running dispute with Quebec nationalists was fuelled by magazine articles he wrote in American publications between the late 1970s and mid 1990s. The articles criticized Quebec's language laws, and separatism. Critics took particular exception to Richler's allegations of anti-semitism. ^[6] The Quebec sovereignty movement is a political movement aimed at attaining independent statehood (sovereignty) for the Canadian province of Quebec. ...

In The Atlantic Monthly, around the time of the first election of the Parti Québécois (PQ) in 1976, Richler linked the PQ to nazism, by asserting that the theme song of the 1976 PQ campaign "À partir d'aujourd'hui, demain nous appartient" was a Nazi song, "Tomorrow belongs to me..." the chilling Hitler Youth song from Cabaret. ^[7]. Neither the remainder of the text, nor the music, are related. Furthermore, the Cabaret song, never sung in Nazi Germany, was written in the 1960s by John Kander, a Jewish American lyricist and composer, not German fascists. "À partir d'aujourd'hui" was written by well-known songwriter Stéphane Venne when he was asked to compose a song for an advertisement of the Caisses populaires Desjardins credit union. In Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! , Richler acknowledges the error, blaming himself for having "cribbed" the information from an article by Irwin Cotler and Ruth Wisse for the Jewish American magazine Commentary ^[8]. Co-writer of the Commentary article Cotler eventually issued a written apology to Lévesque. Richler also apologized for the incident and called it an "embarrassing gaffe" ^[9]. The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. ... The Parti Québécois or PQ is a political party that advocates national sovereignty for the Canadian province of Quebec and secession from Canada, as well as social democratic policies and has traditionally had support from the labour movement. ... The Hitler Youth (German: Hitler-Jugend, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1922 to 1945. ... Cabaret is a 1966 Broadway musical, based on John Van Drutens play I Am a Camera, based in its turn on stories by Christopher Isherwood, with book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, produced and directed by Hal Prince and starring Bert Convy... Image:JohnKander. ... The Mouvement Desjardins (Dejardins Movement in English) is the largest association of credit unions in North America. ... Irwin Cotler, PC , MP , OC , BA , BCL , LL.D , Ph. ... // Commentary, a monthly magazine founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945, bills itself as Americas premier monthly magazine of opinion. ...

His views were strongly criticized by some in Québec and to some degree among Anglophone Canadians.^[10] His detractors maintained that Richler had an outdated and stereotyped view of Quebec society, and that he risked polarizing relations between French and English. After the publication of Oh Canada! Oh Quebec,Pierrette Venne, a future Bloc Québécois MP called for the book to be banned.^[11] Daniel Latouche compared the book to Mein Kampf.^[12] Nadia Khouri believes that there was a racist undertone in some of the reaction to Richler, emphasizing that he wasn't "one of us"^[13] or that he wasn't a "real Quebecer" ^[14] Additionally some passages were deliberately misquoted; a section in which he said that Quebec women were treated like "sows" was misinterpreted to suggest that Richler thought they were sows.^[15] Other French writers also thought there had been an overreaction, including Jean-Hugues Roy, Étienne Gignac, Serge-Henri Vicière, and Dorval Brunelle. His defenders asserted that Mordecai Richler may have been wrong on certain specific points, but was certainly not racist or anti-Quebecois.^[16] Richler had always attacked nationalists, including English Canadians, Israelis and Zionists. ^{[citation needed]} Some Quebecers acclaimed Richler for his courage and for attacking the orthodoxies of Quebec society.^[17], and he has been described as "the most prominent defender of the rights of Quebec's anglophones."^[18] The term Anglophone Canadian refers to anyone from Canada who speaks English as a native language. ... Pierrette Venne (born 8 August 1945 in Beauharnois, Quebec) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003. ... The Bloc Québécois is a centre-left federal political party in Canada that is devoted to the promotion of sovereignty for Quebec. ... Cover of Mein Kampf Volume 1 (First Edition) Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle) is the signature work of Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ... A bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s. ...

The reaction to Richler's book itself raised concerns for some commentators ^[19] about the persistence of antisemitism among sections of the Quebec population. He received death threats, including a threat to blow up the hospital in which he was staying, and letters with swastikas drawn on them;^[20] a francophone journalist yelled at one of his sons that "if your father was here, I'd make him relive the holocaust right now!", while an editorial cartoon in the French press compared him to Hitler.^[21] The criticism that he wrote his essay on Quebec for money was seen as evoking old stereotypes of Jews, and the demands made for leaders of the Jewish community to dissociate themselves from Richler were seen as indicating that Richler, although born in Quebec and for a time married to a French-Canadian, was "not part of the tribe" because he was anglo and Jewish. ^[22]

Following Jacques Parizeau's comment on the day of the 1995 referendum, where the latter attributed the loss to "money and the ethnic vote", Richler created the "Impure Wool Society" which granted the "Prix Parizeau" to a distinguished non-francophone and non-native Quebec writer. The prize (with an award of $3000) was granted twice: Benet Davetian in 1996 for The Seventh Circle, and David Manicom in 1997 for Ice In Dark Water. ^[23] Jacques Parizeau, (born August 9, 1930) is an economist and noted Quebec sovereigntist who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996. ... Bill on the referendum and eventual declaration of independence. ... David Manicom (born 1960 in Ingersoll, Ontario) is a Canadian diplomat, poet and novelist. ...

Family life

Richler divorced Catherine Boudreault to marry his second wife, Florence. He adopted her son Daniel. The couple had five children, including:

• Daniel Richler - A longstanding figure in Canadian media and broadcasting, Daniel Richler has written a semi-autobiographical novel, Kicking Tomorrow (1991). The protagonist's father bears many similarities to Mordecai Richler.
• Emma Richler - author of a collection of linked short stories Sister Crazy (2001), which features a father modeled on her own. A novel, Feed My Dear Dogs was published in 2005.
• Jacob Richler - an author and columnist.
• Noah Richler - a journalist, radio producer and host, and author of This Is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada (2006).
• Martha Richler - a cartoonist who published a daily cartoon, most recently, in London's Evening Standard, using the pen-name "Marf". Her cartoons are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Charles Saatchi Collection. She also wrote the companion guide to Washington's National Gallery of Art, A World of Art.

Leah Rosenfeld, Richler's mother, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter (1981), which discusses Mordecai's birth and upbringing. Daniel Richler, one of the sons of Canadian author Mordecai Richler, is a well known arts and pop culture broadcaster and writer. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum viewed from Thurloe Square The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) is on Cromwell Road in Kensington, West London. ... The East Building of the National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is an art museum managed by the government of the United States but privately owned, although it functions as a public institution. ...

Awards and recognition

• 1969 Governor General's Award for Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass.
• 1972 Governor General's Award for St. Urbain's Horseman.
• 1974 Screenwriters Guild of America Award for Best Comedy for screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
• 1976 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
• 1976 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award for Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
• 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize
• 1995 Mr. Christie's Book Award (for the best English book age 8 to 11) for Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case.
• 1997 The Giller Prize for Barney's Version.
• 1998 Canadian Booksellers Associations "Author of the Year" award.
• 1998 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour Barney's Version
• 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canada & Caribbean region)Barney's Version
• 2000 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
• 2001 Companion of the Order of Canada
• 2004 Number 98 on the CBC's television show about great Canadians, The Greatest Canadian
• Barney's Version was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2004, championed by author Zsuzsi Gartner. Cocksure was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2006, championed by actor and author Scott Thompson
• Barney's Version was also adapted to radio by the CBC

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Bibliography

Fiction

• The Acrobats (1954) (also published as Wicked We Love, July 1955)
• Son of a Smaller Hero (1955)
• A Choice of Enemies (1957)
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
• The Incomparable Atuk (1963)
• Cocksure (1968)
• The Street (1969)
• St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
• Joshua Then and Now (1980)
• Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989)
• Barney's Version (1997)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the fourth novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ... Joshu Then and Now first edition Joshua Then and Now is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Mordecai Richler and published in 1980. ... Solomon Gursky Was Here is a novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler first published Viking Canada in 1989. ... Cover of the first American edition Barneys Version is a novel written by Canadian author Mordecai Richler, published by Knopf Canada in 1997. ...

Fiction for children

• Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975)
• Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987)
• Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case (1995)

Jacob Two-Two is a trilogy of books written by Mordecai Richler. ...

Travel

• Images of Spain (1977)
• This Year In Jerusalem (1994)

Essays

• Hunting Tigers Under Glass: Essays and Reports (1968)
• Shovelling Trouble (1972)
• Notes on an 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)
• Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country (1992)
• Dispatches from the Sporting Life (2000)

Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country (ISBN 0140168176) was written by Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler in 1992. ...

Nonfiction

• On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It (2001)

Anthologies

• Canadian Writing Today (1970)
• The Best of Modern Humour (1986) (U.S. title: The Best of Modern Humor)
• Writers on World War II - (1991)

Film scripts

• Life at the Top (1965) (screenplay from novel by John Braine)
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film) (1974) (Screenwriters Guild Award and Oscar screenplay nomination)
• The Street (short animation) (1976) [2]
• Fun with Dick and Jane (film) (1977) (with David Giler & Jerry Belson, from a story by Gerald Gaiser)
• The Wordsmith (TV) (1979)
• Joshua Then and Now (film) (1985)

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References

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• CBC Digital Archives: Mordecai Richler Was Here
• 1983, 1990 audio interviews with Mordecai Richler by Don Swaim
• Obituary of Richler
• Literary biography of Richler
• Obituary by Robert Fulford

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See also

• List of Quebec authors

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References

1. ^ The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Penguin Books, 1964, p. 13
2. ^ Laurence Ricou, "Mordecai Richler", The Oxford Companion to Literature, 2d ed., 1997
3. ^ http://www.robertfulford.com/MordecaiRichler.html
4. ^ Mordecai my pal., By: Rabinovitch, Jack. Maclean's, 24/6/2002, Vol. 115, Issue 25
5. ^ "Mordecai Richler, 1931-2001." By: Mark Steyn. New Criterion, September 2001, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p123-128.
6. ^ See, "Fighting words." By: Richler, Mordecai. New York Times Book Review, June 1, 1997, Vol. 146 Issue 50810, p8; "Tired of separatism." By: Richler, Mordecai. New York Times, October 31, 1994, Vol. 144 Issue 49866, pA19]; "O Quebec." By: Richler, Mordecai. New Yorker, May 30, 1994, Vol. 70 Issue 15, p50; "Gros Mac attack." By: Richler, Mordecai. New York Times Magazine, July 18, 93, Vol. 142 Issue 49396, p10; "Language Problems." By: Richler, Mordecai. Atlantic , Jun83, Vol. 251 Issue 6, p10, 8p; "OH! CANADA! Lament for a divided country." By: Richler, Mordecai. Atlantic Monthly (0004-6795), Dec1977, Vol. 240 Issue 6, p34;
7. ^ "Controverse autour du livre Oh Canada Oh Québec!" video, Archives, Société Radio-Canada, March 31, 1992, retrieved September 22, 2006
8. ^ "Faut arrêter de freaker" by Pierre Foglia, La Presse, December 16, 2000
9. ^ Smith, Donald. D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation. Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997. p. 56.
10. ^ Smart, Pat. "Daring to Disagree with Mordecai" in Canadian Forum May 1992, p.8.
11. ^ Johnson, William. "Oh, Mordecai. Oh, Quebec." The Globe and Mail July 7, 2001.
12. ^ "Le Grand Silence", Le Devoir, March 28 1992.
13. ^ "Richler, Trudeau, Lasagne et les autres", October 22, 1991. Le Devoir
14. ^ Sarah Scott, Geoff Baker, "Richler Doesn't Know Quebec, Belanger Says; Writer 'Doesn't Belong', Chairman of Panel on Quebec's Future Insists", The Gazette, 20 September 1991.
15. ^ Khouri, Nadia. Qui a peur de Mordecai Richler. Montréal: Éditions Balzac, 1995.
16. ^ "Hitting below the belt.", By: Barbara Amiel, Maclean's, 13/8/2001, Vol. 114, Issue 33
17. ^ Khouri, Nadia. Qui a peur de Mordecai Richler. Montréal: Éditions Balzac, 1995
18. ^ Ricou, above
19. ^ Khouri, above, Scott et al., above, Delisle cited in Kraft, below
20. ^ Noah Richler, "A Just Campaign", The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2001, p. AR4
21. ^ Michel Vastel, "Le cas Richler". L'Actualite,Nov.1, 1996, p.66
22. ^ Frances Kraft, "Esther Delisle", The Canadian Jewish News, April 1, 1993, p. 6
23. ^ http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/english/awards.htm