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Montague Haltrecht (27 February 1932 – 20 April 2010) was an English writer, literary critic, model and radio and TV presenter. Over the course of his literary career he wrote four novels, ''Jonah and His Mother'' (1964), ''A Secondary Character'' (1965), ''The Devil is a Single Man'' (1969) and ''The Edgware Road'' (1970), exploring different aspects of Jewish life, and a biography of Sir David Webster, ''The Quiet Showman'' (1975), along with several short stories and radio and TV plays. He won the Henfield Foundation Award for his first two novels and gained a BAFTA nomination for his TV play ''Can You Hear Me Thinking?''. As a character model, he worked for the Ugly Models agency, and appeared in advertisements for Schweppes, Weetabix, Right Guard and Sony, amongst others. He was employed as new fiction reviewer by ''The Sunday Times'' and also contributed numerous reviews to many other leading British publications. From the 1980s onwards he presented, and sometimes wrote, several radio and TV programmes for the BBC on a variety of subjects, including literature, opera and music. == Family background and early life == Montague Haltrecht was born in Willesden, North London on 27 February 1932, the third son of immigrant Jewish parents. His father, Philip (Phil) Haltrecht, originally from Łódź in Poland, had come to England in 1905 aged ten, along with his family, fleeing from persecution. His mother, Kate Oslovski, came from a Russian family from Odessa who had also fled from persecution. Phil and Kate met and married in England and had five children, sons Herbert, born in 1924, Norman, Montague and Michael, and a daughter who died at four months. Phil's father had kept a general store (Haltrecht's) in the East End of London, which Phil continued in Willesden, before moving to Golders Green in 1942. Herbert Haltrecht was killed in action in Burma during World War II in August 1945, while Kate Haltrecht died seven years later in 1952. Phil Haltrecht found comfort in a friend of his wife's called Rose and married her sometime later. Montague, who as a teenager had been presented with complete sets of the works of both Charles Dickens and George Bernard Shaw, decided to become a writer, something he knew Herbert had wanted to be. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montague Haltrecht」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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