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), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada The prime mini ...

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 human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

at the

Université du Québec à Montréal The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québe ...

, 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 The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It has been presented annually in Ottawa at the Writers� ...

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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