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.^[1]

Max Nemni
Born	(1935-06-13)June 13, 1935
Died	August 29, 2024(2024-08-29) (aged 89)
Occupation	Political scientist, biographer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1990s–2024
Notable works	Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed
Spouse	Monique Nemni ​ (died 2022)​

He was a professor of political science at Université Laval,^[2] and a coeditor of Cité Libre.^[3]

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.^[4] The second volume, Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965, was a shortlisted nominee for the same award in 2011.^[1] 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.^[5]

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)