Author
Mordecai Richler
7 award wins, 3 nominations across 5 books.
Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer. His best known works are *The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz* (1959) and *Barney's Version* (1997). He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's *Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!* (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.
Barney's Version
Published 1997-09-25 · 417 pages
Barney Panofsky smokes too many cigars, drinks too much whiskey, and is obsessed with two things: the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and his ex-wife Miriam. An acquaintance from his youthful years in Paris, Terry McIver, is about to publish his autobiography. In its pages he accuses Barney of an assortment of sins, including murder. It's time, Barney decides, to present the world with his own version of events.
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Cocksure
Published 1968
It was outright satire at the time it was written. Now, I'm inclined to think it was more of a forecast of the society we see being created.
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Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
87 pages
The delightful adventures of an ordinary boy condemned to the dreaded dungeon ''From which no brat returns!''
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Solomon Gursky Was Here
557 pages
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St. Urbain's Horseman
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