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Mordecai Richler was born 27 January 1932 in Montreal, Quebec. He attended Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) but left before graduating. Richler moved to Paris when he was 19 and then lived in London, England until 1972, when he returned to Montreal. In addition to his books, he wrote several screenplays and many articles for magazines and newspapers. Richler died of cancer on 3 July 2001 in Montreal.

Books by Mordecai Richler

	1954 The Acrobats (also released as Wicked We Love (1955))
	1955 Son of a Smaller Hero
	1957 A Choice of Enemies
	1959 The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
	1963 The Incomparable Atuk
	1968 Cocksure
	1968 Hunting Tigers Under Glass: Essays and Reports
	1969 The Street
	1971 St. Urbain's Horseman
	1972 Shovelling Trouble
	1974 Notes on an Endangered Species and Others
	1975 Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
	1977 Images of Spain
	1978 The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays
	1980 Joshua Then and Now
	1984 Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album
	1987 Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur
	1989 Solomon Gursky Was Here
	1991 Broadsides
	1992 Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country
	1994 This Year In Jerusalem
	1995 Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case
	1997 Barney's Version
	1998 Belling the Cat
	2001 On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It
	2002 Dispatches from the Sporting Life
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2004 – Barney's Version – Shortlisted
  • 2006 – Cocksure – Shortlisted

• Le Combat des livres
  • 2008 – Le monde de Barney – Shortlisted

• Giller Prize
  • 1997 – Barney's Version – Winner

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1971 – St. Urbain's Horseman – Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 2000 – Companion

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 1997 – Barney's Version – Shortlisted

• Silver Birch Award
  • 1997 – Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case – Shortlisted

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
  • 1998 – Barney's Version – Winner

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Added 13 February 2006.
Updated 07 January 2012.