Max Nemni

Max Nemni (June 13, 1935 – August 29, 2024) was a Canadian political scientist and writer, best known for a series of biographies of former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau which he cowrote with his wife Monique Nemni."The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Series, with Max and Monique Nemni"
. ''Open Book Toronto'', April 23, 2012.

He was a professor of political science at Université Laval, and a coeditor of '' Cité Libre''.

The first volume of the Trudeau biography, '' Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944'', won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2006. The second volume, ''Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965'', was a shortlisted nominee for the same award in 2011. A third volume, focusing on Trudeau's career in elected politics after 1965, is slated for future publication.

Nemni died on August 29, 2024, at the age of 89.

Works

*'' Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944'' (2006, )
*''Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965'' (2011, )

References

1935 births
2024 deaths
Canadian political scientists
Canadian magazine editors
21st-century Canadian biographers
Canadian male biographers
Canadian non-fiction writers in French
Writers from Montreal
Academic staff of Université Laval

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