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Max Nemni

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Nationality
  
Canadian

Period
  
1990s-present


Name
  
Max Nemni

Spouse
  
Monique Nemni

Occupation
  
political scientist, biographer

Notable works
  
Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed

Books
  
Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965

Max Nemni is 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.

He is a retired professor of political science at Université Laval, and a former 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.

Works

  • Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944 (2006, ISBN 978-0771067495)
  • Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965 (2011, ISBN 978-0771051258)
  • References

    Max Nemni Wikipedia