Mavis Gallant (1922–2014)
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Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal, Canada on August 11, 1922. Her parents sent her to live at a French convent when she was 4. When she was 10, her father died from kidney disease. Her mother quickly remarried and moved to New York - leaving her daughter behind. During World War II, Gallant worked visa mer in the cutting room at the National Film Board of Canada and as a reporter for the Montreal Standard. She eventually became a columnist and feature writer. Two of her short stories appeared in the December, 1944, issue of Preview. She published more than 100 stories in The New Yorker beginning in 1951. During her lifetime, she wrote two novels and several short story collections. Her works include Green Water, Green Sky; A Fairly Good Time; Overhead in a Balloon; Across the Bridge; The Pegnitz Junction; Paris Stories; and The Cost of Living. She received several awards including the Governor-General's Award for Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories, the Pen Nabokov Award for career achievement, the Matt Cohen Prize in 2000, and the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2002. In 1981, she was made Officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to literature that year. She died on February 18, 2014 at the age 91. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Mavis Gallant
The Accident 2 exemplar
“Mlle. Dias de Corta” 1 exemplar
The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street 1 exemplar
When we were nearly young 1 exemplar
Gallant, Mavis Archive 1 exemplar
Gallant Mavis 1 exemplar
Piccoli naufragi 1 exemplar
L'altra Parigi (in Un fiore sconosciuto) 1 exemplar
Di passaggio (in Un fiore sconosciuto) 1 exemplar
Nel tunnel (in Un fiore sconosciuto) 1 exemplar
La remissione (in Al di là del ponte) 1 exemplar
La moglie mussulmana (in Al di là del ponte) 1 exemplar
Il bambino dei Fenton (in Varietà di esilio) 1 exemplar
Il marito prescelto (in Varietà di esilio) 1 exemplar
Il rimpatriato (in Un fiore sconosciuto) 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 1,141 exemplar, 3 recensioner
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 464 exemplar, 4 recensioner
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 111 exemplar, 2 recensioner
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 75 exemplar, 1 recension
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar, 2 recensioner
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- Andra namn
- Young, Mavis Leslie de Trafford (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1922-08-11
- Avled
- 2014-02-18
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Dödsort
- Paris, France
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France - Yrken
- journalist
short-story writer - Priser och utmärkelser
- Order of Canada (Companion)
Prix Athanase-David (Quebec prize for literature)
Matt Cohen Prize (2000)
Rea Award for the Short Story
PEN/Nabokov Award (2004)
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2004) (visa alla 8)
Molson Prize (1996)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1989)
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Gallant is an extraordinary writer. She is the kind of writer who, when you read one of her stories for the first time, makes you say "why haven't I been reading her all my life." If you have not done so already, do so now.
Not many writers could go deeper than this. Felt like Canada's Faulkner for a second, even with the difference in theme. I can't believe it. When the say writing is magic. I can believe it.
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I don't read to study literature, although I do look for fine literature and good writers, and I avoid what I see as hacks. When I read fiction it is to vicariously meet people I want to spend time with, or travel to places I want to be, and I didn't find either of those here.… (mer)