Mordecai Richler

Canadian novelist and essayist — author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Incomparable Atuk, and Barney's Version — the greatest Canadian novelist — whose combination of social satire and Jewish-Canadian experience is without peer.

Creates the voice for Canadian Jewish experience — Richler's fiction (satirizing both Quebec nationalism and Canadian Jewish assimilation) is the most complex and funny Canadian literary fiction; his refusal to be diplomatic about Canadian culture (he wrote a New Yorker article mocking Quebec language laws) made him the most controversial Canadian writer.