Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler, CC ( born January 27, 1931 in Montreal, † 3 July 2001 ) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. During his lifetime he was one of the best-known Canadian writers worldwide. In Canada, even he was also by his remarks to the Canadian policy is a controversial public figure.
Richler was nominated several times for the Canadian literary awards Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Life
Richler was born into a Jewish family and was the son of a scrap dealer. The neighborhood in which he grew up in Montreal, he immortalized later in several of his novels. He started an English degree at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), however, exmatrikulierte before he had attained a degree. At the age of 19 years Richler moved to Paris, where he lived for several years before he moved to London. In 1972 he returned to Montreal, but spent continue regularly during the winter months in London.
With his fourth 1959 novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( under the title of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz only in February 2007, first published in German translation ) Richler managed the breakthrough as a writer. Like many of his novels treated following this book the life of the Jewish community in the area in which Richler had grown even in the 1940s and 1950s. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was filmed in 1974 by Ted Kotcheff; the screenplay was by Richler and Lionel Chetwynd and the film helped Richard Dreyfuss to his first starring role.
Throughout his career as a writer Richler also wrote regularly journalistic comments, including for Look and The New Yorker. In his later years, Richler also worked as a columnist for The National Post (Toronto) and The Gazette ( Montreal). In his columns and journalistic contributions, Richler was as polemical critics of francophone separatist movement and that of her enforced in Quebec language legislation. A few months before his death Richler was awarded the honor " Companion of the Order of Canada ".
Richler's works are peppered with humor and satire, and have received many awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize; also for the Booker Prize, his works were nominated several times. From Richler's children's book Jacob Two Two in danger (AKA Jacob Two -Two Meets the Hooded Fang, also. Jacob Two -Two vs. the Hooded Fang), among others, was an eponymous cartoon series that aired in Germany on ARD. Among German critics especially Time -author Max Küng has repeatedly described as a follower of Richler's works. The German translations of some Richler novels are now out and achieve on the second hand market itself as a paperback prices up to 90 €.
Together with his wife Florence Mordecai Richler had five children. He is buried in the cemetery of Mont- Royal in Montreal.
Works
Novels
- Son of a smaller hero, dt v. Paul Baudisch, Kindler, Munich 1963
- The floor no longer carries me, dt v. Paul Baudisch, Kindler, Munich 1958
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, dt v. Silvia Morawetz, Liebeskind, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-935890-42-7
- Cocksure, dt v. Silvia Morawetz, Liebeskind, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-935890-49-6
- The Dream of Jacob Hersch, dt v. Gisela Stege, Kindler, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-463-00798-3
- Joshua then and now, dt v. Gisela Stege, Kindler, Munich 1981. ISBN 3-463-00836- X
- Solomon Gursky was here, dt v. Hartmut tooth and Carina of Enzenberg, Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1992. ISBN 978-3-935890779
- As Barney sees it, ger v. Anette Grube, Hanser, Munich, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 3-446-19851-2
Youth books
- Jacob Two- Two and the Dinosaur; Other formats: Jacob Two -Two and the Dinosaur, dt v. Steffen Buchert, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-80618-6.
- A gift for Jacob Two Two, dt v. Reinhard Kaiser, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-8218-3628-8
Screenplays
Travel
Essays
Non- fictional texts
- 2001 On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It