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Montague Haltrecht (27 February 1932 – 27 March 2010) was an English writer, literary critic, model and radio and TV presenter. Over the course of his literary career he wrote four novels, ''Jonah and His Mother'' (1964), ''A Secondary Character'' (1965), ''The Devil is a Single Man'' (1969) and ''The Edgware Road'' (1970), exploring different aspects of Jewish life, and a biography of Sir David Webster, ''The Quiet Showman'' (1975), along with several short stories and radio and TV plays. He won the Henfield Foundation Award for his first two novels and gained a BAFTA nomination for his TV play ''Can You Hear Me Thinking?''. As a character model, he worked for the Ugly Models agency, and appeared in advertisements for
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, amongst others. He was employed as new fiction reviewer by ''
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'' and also contributed numerous reviews to many other leading British publications. From the 1980s onwards he presented, and sometimes wrote, several radio and TV programmes for the
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on a variety of subjects, including literature, opera and music.


Family background and early life

Montague Haltrecht was born in
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, North London on 27 February 1932, the third son of immigrant Jewish parents. His father, Philip (Phil) Haltrecht, originally from
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in Poland, had come to England in 1905 aged ten, along with his family, fleeing from persecution. His mother, Kate Oslovski, came from a Russian family from
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who had also fled from persecution. Phil and Kate met and married in England and had five children, sons Herbert, born in 1924, Norman, Montague and Michael, and a daughter who died at four months. Phil's father had kept a general store (Haltrecht's) in the
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, which Phil continued in Willesden, before moving to
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in 1942. Herbert Haltrecht was killed in action in
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during World War II in August 1945, while Kate Haltrecht died seven years later in 1952. Phil Haltrecht found comfort in a friend of his wife's called Rose and married her sometime later. Montague, who as a teenager had been presented with complete sets of the works of both
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and
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, decided to become a writer, something he knew Herbert had wanted to be.


Education

Haltrecht attended the
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, then located in
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, North London, between 1942 and 1948, before going on to
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in 1950 to study law before changing to
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, French and Spanish. During that time he wrote articles for the college magazine and left Oxford in 1954 determined to become a novelist.


Early career

For the first six years after leaving Oxford, Haltrecht's hopes for a literary career proved a disappointment. All of his submissions to editors were rejected, including five early novels that were never published. However, Haltrecht kept turning down his father's offer of a job in the family business. He rented a room, and to pay his rent he worked as a supply teacher, a
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, and as a reader of plays for the National Theatre at ten shillings a play. He later worked as a
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at a London theatre and as an '
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' in several TV films, all the time continuing to write. Finally he gave in and accepted the job offer serving female customers in his father's dress business, first in a shop on the
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near the
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in
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and later in
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.


Literary career

It was a short story, ''Clouds over Bond Street'', written while working in the family dress shop, and accepted by
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for a short story slot, that finally gave Haltrecht the recognition he so desired. A second short story, ''Il vaut plus cher mort que vivant'' (It is worth more dead than alive), appeared in a French collection alongside a story by
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, while a third short story, ''Indoor Life'', was published by Hutchinson in a collection entitled ''Splinters'', alongside those of Michael Baldwin,
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and, again, Graham Greene. He assumed the lease of a larger flat, shared with his brother Norman and the latter's wife Anita. Montague took in lodgers, one of whom, the novelist
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, agreed to show a
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of Haltrecht's to his own publisher
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, who had previously rejected it. To his amazement, this time the publisher accepted it for publication. ''Jonah and His Mother'', a novel about a young man finding his
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, was Montague Haltrecht's first published book and appeared in 1964 with mixed, but generally good, reviews, ''
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'' newspaper critic calling it "Witty, assured first novel" and ''
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'' describing it variously as "Cool elegance, ingenious style" and a "small barbed masterpiece". Film rights were even discussed with a Hollywood studio, but were subsequently not taken up. The following year, 1965, André Deutsch published his second novel ''A Secondary Character'', for which two works combined he won the Henfield Foundation Award. Four years later
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published his third novel, ''The Devil Is a Single Man'' in 1969, followed a year later by ''The Edgware Road'' in 1970. His fifth and final book, also published by Collins, in 1975, was ''The Quiet Showman'', a biography of Sir David Webster and the history of opera at the
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from World War II to the 1970s. Haltrecht also ventured into writing for the stage when in 1974 he wrote a one-woman play for
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called ''Ellen Terry – The Harum Scarum Girl'' based on the life of the English stage actress. This was later produced for the theatre with the South African actress Bess Finney in the title role and directed by
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at both the Buxton and Edinburgh festivals and on a tour to South Africa.


Fiction and film reviewer

The success of his first novel led ''The Sunday Times'' in 1965 to invite Haltrecht to be their new fiction reviewer. Haltrecht eked out his modest salary by selling the copies of books he had reviewed to bookshop owners for a few pounds each. He continued as reviewer until 1969 when he decided to give up the post so as not to interfere with the writing of any future novels. Beginning in the late 1970s, he again provided occasional reviews for ''
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'', ''Books and Bookmen'' and '' Time Out'', and contributed film reviews to ''
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Modelling career

Despite the critics' praise, and a
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, Haltrecht's novels had not made him any money. Following the publication of his first novel, he had found a partner in 1965, the actor
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, to share his life with. Amer advised him to take some photos that he had to the
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agency where he was accepted and became much in demand. The jobs on offer were so lucrative that they gave him the time he needed for writing. However, a demanding schedule of travel to Germany, Italy and South Africa soon followed. Two of Haltrecht's novels, ''Jonah and His Mother'' and ''The Edgware Road'' were banned in South Africa: the first “because of certain passages considered to be incestuous” and the second because it portrayed marriage across the racial divide.


Radio

Haltrecht had already worked for the BBC translating plays from French and Spanish. In 1983, BBC Radio producer
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asked Haltrecht to be the presenter of a programme called ''Enjoying Opera'', which proved to be so successful that he was asked to do five more and which were rebroadcast in 1984. In that same year, Haltrecht interviewed
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on BBC Radio about her book ''The Sioux''. In February 1985, BBC Radio produced his play ''Unhappy Disturber of Our Peace'', about the relationship between the actress
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and the portrait painter Sir
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, starring
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and
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. That same year, BBC producer John Knight asked him to write and present three programmes on the life of
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called ''Living at Full Flame'', starring Michael Williams. In 1988, Haltrecht wrote and presented ''Enter One in Sad Green'' for John Knight, which examined the way in which
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have been portrayed in the theatre throughout history. In 1990, BBC producer Jenny Bardwell asked him to interview
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and
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for the
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, and in 1994 he presented ''A Night at the Opera''. That same year, Bardwell asked him this time to present ''Artworks. Changing Platforms'' for the Open University on
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, which looked at writers who switched genres.


Television

In 1990 Haltrecht's first TV play, ''Can You Hear Me Thinking?'' (based on an idea by Beverly Marcus whom he credited as co-writer), about the impact of
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on family life and written for the BBC's ''
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'' series and directed by
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, was an immediate success in the UK and Australia, earning a BAFTA nomination. It starred Judi Dench and Michael Williams. Haltrecht then presented ''The Slate: Coming up for More'' in 1995 for the BBC, a programme about the writer Bernice Rubens and featuring extract readings by
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and interviews with Rubens herself and other writers. In 2006, Haltrecht played a small comic role in the children's entertainment show ''
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'', which was successful enough for the producers to keep him in the series. He was also included in the final ''Favourite Moments of the Series'' in 2009.


Awards and honours

For his first two novels, ''Jonah and His Mother'' and ''A Secondary Character'', Haltrecht won the Henfield Foundation Award in 1967 against established writers such as Bernice Rubens and
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. He travelled with his partner to New York City to collect it. In 1990 he gained a BAFTA nomination for his TV play, ''Can You Hear Me Thinking?''


Personal life

Haltrecht, being born into an Orthodox Jewish community, struggled with his homosexuality. As a young man, he was sent for weekly visits, paid for by his father, to a Jewish
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. After three attempts at proving him to be
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, or at least
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, had ended in failure, he refused any more visits. The publication of his first novel was enough to enable him to find his voice, and within a year he had met and fallen in love with the man who was to share the rest of his life, the actor
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. They lived together in
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for the next 45 years, becoming civil partners in 2009 following the change in the law governing
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as a result of the passing of the
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. Haltrecht died of cancer in March 2010.


List of literary works


Novels

* ''Jonah and His Mother'' ( Andre Deutsch, 1964) * ''A Secondary Character'' ( Andre Deutsch, 1965) * ''The Devil is a Single Man'' (
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, 1969) * ''The Edgware Road'' (
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, 1970)


Short stories

* ''Clouds over Bond Street'' (
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, 1965) * ''Il vaut plus cher mort que vivant'', in: ''La revue de poche – Graham Greene et six jeunes romanciers anglais'' (
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, 1967) * ''Indoor Life'', in: ''Splinters'' ( Hutchinson, 1968)


Drama

* ''Ellen Terry – The Harum Scarum Girl'' (one-woman stage play, 1974) * ''Unhappy Disturber of Our Peace'' (
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, 1985) * ''Can You Hear Me Thinking?'' (
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, 1990)


Non-fiction (biography)

* ''The Quiet Showman: Sir David Webster and the Royal Opera House'' (
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, 1975)


References

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