Mel Hurtig

Mel Hurtig OC (24 ga Yuni, 1932 - 3 ga Agusta, 2016) ya kasance mai wallafa Kanada, marubuci, mai fafutukar siyasa, kuma dan takarar siyasa. Ya kasance shugaban Edmonton Art Gallery . Ya bayyana kansa a matsayin dan kasar Kanada, yayin da ya kuma rubuta littattafai da yawa da ke sukar manufofin gwamnatin Kanada.

Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi

An haifi Hurtig a Edmonton, Alberta, a ranar 24 ga Yuni 1932. Iyayensa baƙi ne Yahudawa: mahaifinsa daga Romania kuma mahaifiyarsa daga Rasha. Tsohon jami'in Edmonton Talmud Torah, ya girma a Edmonton kuma ya kammala karatu daga makarantar sakandare a can.

Kasuwanci, mai bugawa da marubuci

A shekara ta 1956 yana da shekaru 24 ya buɗe kantin sayar da littattafai, Hurtig Books, a kan Jasper Avenue da 103rd Street, wanda daga baya ya girma ya zama babban aikin sayar da littattafan tare da wurare uku. Shaguna sun nuna wasan kwaikwayo, karatun shayari, ƙarfafa hulɗar jama'a, kuma ba a saba da shi ba, an ba da izinin shan kofi.

Bayan sayar da shagunansa a shekarar 1972, ya kafa Hurtig Publishers Ltd. tare da $ 30,000 a cikin kuɗin aro. Ya zama "ɗaya daga cikin kamfanonin wallafe-wallafen littattafai masu rai a Kanada". A cikin 1980, ya fara aiki a kan The Canadian Encyclopedia, ya kashe dala miliyan 12 a kan cikakkiyar kundin encyclopedia na kasa guda uku da aka fara bugawa a cikin 1985. Wani bugu na biyu, wanda ya ɗauki shekaru huɗu don kammalawa kuma ya kashe dala miliyan 8.5 don samarwa, ya bayyana a cikin kundi huɗu a cikin 1988. Abin mamaki ga mai bugawa, an sayar da bugu na biyu ba zato ba tsammani har zuwa kashi 55 cikin dari na ragi ta kamfanonin ƙasa, suna tayar da kasuwa.

A watan Satumbar 1990, Hurtig ya buga kundin Junior Encyclopedia na Kanada guda biyar, encyclopedia na farko ga matasa 'yan Kanada. Ya sayar da kamfanin ga McClelland & Stewart a watan Mayu 1991.

Hurtig ya kasance Jami'in Order of Canada, an ba shi digiri na Doctor of Laws daga jami'o'i shida na Kanada, kuma ya karbi kyautar Lester B. Pearson Man of the Year Peace Award .

Siyasa

A shekara ta 1967 Hurtig ya zama mai sha'awar siyasa lokacin da Jam'iyyar Liberal ke neman sabon shugaba saboda ritaya na Firayim Minista Pearson. Ya ƙare yana goyon bayan nasarar Ministan Shari'a Pierre Trudeau na neman jagorancin Liberal.[1] A shekara ta 1972 ya gudu a matsayin mai sassaucin ra'ayi a cikin tarayya na Edmonton West . Ya kammala na biyu ga mai rike da mukamin Progressive Conservative Marcel Lambert.[2]