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,"Unity crisis spawns flood of books". Montreal Gazette, January 8, 1992. and a coeditor of Cité Libre."Cite Libre division on display". Montreal Gazette, March 26, 1996.
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."Biography of Trudeau's youth wins Shaughnessy Cohen prize". CBC News, February 28, 2007. 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, )
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