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| | Random House of Canada Limited Author Connection - Mordecai Richler |
 | | Mordecai Richler was associated with The Giller Prize throughout its eight-year history, as an early advisor to founder Jack Rabinovitch, as a two-time juror, a member of the Advisory Board, and, in 1997, as a winner for Barney’s Version. |
 | | Mordecai Richler is the author of ten novels — including Barney’s Version (1997), Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989), Cocksure (1968), and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) — as well as numerous screenplays, essays, children’s books, and several works of non-fiction. |
 | | This morning in Toronto at a gathering of friends and media it was announced that a typeface has been commissioned and designed in memory of Mordecai Richler, the esteemed Canadian author of books including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, St. Urbain’s Horseman, Solomon Gursky Was Here, and Barney’s Version. |
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