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

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

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

Books about Mordecai Richler

	The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler, An Oral Biography by Michael Posner	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	Mordecai Richler: A Life in Ten Novels by Ada Craniford	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	Fiction and Fact in Mordecai Richler's Novels by Ada Craniford	Amazon.ca Biblio.com

Added 13 February 2006.
Updated 12 August 2009.