Mordecai Richler - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

• 1969 Governor General's Award for Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass.
• 1972 Governor General's Award for St. Urbain's Horseman.
• 1974 Screenwriters Guild of America Award for Best Comedy for screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
• 1976 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
• 1976 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award for Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
• 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Solomon Gursky was Here
• 1995 Mr. Christie's Book Award (for the best English book age 8 to 11) for Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case.
• 1997 The Giller Prize for Barney's Version.
• 1998 Canadian Booksellers Associations "Author of the Year" award.
• 1998 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour for Barney's Version
• 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canada & Caribbean region) for Barney's Version
• 1998 The QSpell Award for Barney's Version.
• 2000 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
• 2000 Honorary Doctorate, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec.
• 2001 Companion of the Order of Canada
• 2004 Number 98 on the CBC's television show about great Canadians, The Greatest Canadian
• 2004 Barney's Version was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2004, championed by author Zsuzsi Gartner.
• 2006 Cocksure was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2006, championed by actor and author Scott Thompson

• 2011 Richler posthumously received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and was inducted at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto.
• That same month in 2011, the City of Montreal announced that a gazebo in Mount Royal Park would be refurbished and named in his honour. The structure overlooks Fletcher's Field, where Richler played in his youth.