Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist who was born on September 21, 1934. Religion, politics, loneliness, sadness, sexuality, loss, death, and personal relationships were all themes in his work.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor. In 2011, he was awarded one of the Prince of Asturias Literature Awards and the eighth Glenn Gould Prize.
Marsha, his Lithuanian mother, immigrated to Canada in 1927 as the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline.
Lyon Cohen, the founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, was his paternal grandpa, whose family had immigrated from Poland to Canada. His parents gave him the Jewish name Eliezer, which means “God helps”. Nathan Bernard Cohen, the owner of a clothing shop, died when Cohen was nine years old.
What caused Leonard Cohen’s death?
The cause of his death is unknown, though documents show that he had cancer.
