Noah Richler

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Noah Richler
Born
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Essayist, writer

Noah Richler is a Canadian author, journalist, and broadcaster who was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and London, England. He is the son of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler.

Richler worked for many years as a radio documentary producer for BBC Radio, representing the organization at the Prix Futura and winning a Sony Award before following in his father's footsteps and becoming a writer. After returning to Canada in 1998, he was the books editor and then the literary columnist for the National Post . His book This Is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada won the 2007 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The book is a literary travelogue and cultural portrait of the country, for which he interviewed novelists and storytellers from Newfoundland to British Columbia and the Inuit Arctic. He also produced and presented a ten-part series for the CBC Radio program Ideas based on his research.

He has contributed to numerous publications in Britain, including The Guardian , Punch and The Daily Telegraph , and in Canada, The Walrus , Maisonneuve , Saturday Night , the Toronto Star , and The Globe and Mail .

He lives in Toronto with his wife, House of Anansi Press publisher Sarah MacLachlan. Richler stood as a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Toronto—St. Paul's in the 2015 federal election. [1] He came third as Carolyn Bennett, St. Paul's' long-serving Liberal Member of Parliament, was re-elected. In 2016 he published The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, a memoir of his experience on the campaign trail. [2] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Author Noah Richler plans to run for NDP in Liberal-dominated Toronto riding". National Post . 10 July 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Review: Noah Richler’s The Candidate is both an instruction manual and a cautionary tale". The Globe and Mail , 28 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Shaughnessy Cohen book prize shortlist announced". Toronto Star , 21 March 2017.
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