Ira Nadel

Ira Nadel
Born
Ira Bruce Nadel

(1943-07-22) July 22, 1943 (age 81)
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater
OccupationProfessor of English at University of British Columbia
Known forBiography, literary criticism
Notable work
  • Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
  • Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller
  • Joyce and the Jews: Culture and the Text
Awards

Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia. He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on Jewish-American authors. He has won Canadian literary awards, and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces. He is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.