Max Nemni

{{Short description|Canadian political scientist and writer (1935–2024)}}

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| occupation = Political scientist, biographer

| period = 1990s–2024

| nationality = Canadian

| notableworks = Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed

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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.[http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/shaughnessy_cohen_prize_series_with_max_and_monique_nemni "The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Series, with Max and Monique Nemni"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210054949/http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/shaughnessy_cohen_prize_series_with_max_and_monique_nemni |date=2015-02-10 }}. 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.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/biography-of-trudeau-s-youth-wins-shaughnessy-cohen-prize-1.683938 "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.{{cite news |title=Max Nemni |url=https://obituaries.thestar.com/obituary/max-nemni-1090717107 |access-date=7 September 2024 |publisher=Toronto Star |date=7 September 2024}}