Monique Esther Nemni (; March 27, 1936 – 2 November 2022) was an Egyptian-born Canadian linguist and writer, best known for a series of biographies of former Prime Minister of Canada

Pierre Trudeau Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between his no ...

which she cowrote with her husband Max Nemni."The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Series, with Max and Monique Nemni"
. ''Open Book Toronto'', 23 April 2012. Nemni was a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

at the

Université du Québec à Montréal The (UQAM; ), is a French language, French-language public university, public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the system. UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government o ...

, 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 of a heart attack in

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, on 2 November 2022, at the age of 86.

Works

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

References

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