Speaking of Stories

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MAVIS GALLANT

Mavis Gallant– Born in Montreal in 1922, Gallant began her writing career as a reporter for the Montreal Standard. Fluent in both English and French, she moved to Paris in 1950 to dedicate herself to fiction writing. She has written two novels, Green Water, Green Sky (1969) and A Fairly Good Time (1970); a play, What Is to be Done? (1984); numerous story collections, The Other Paris (1956), My Heart is Broken (1964), The Pegnitz Junction (1973), The End of the World and Other Stories (1974), From the Fifteenth District (1978), Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981), winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literature, Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris (1985), and In Transit (1988); and a nonfiction work, Paris Journals: Selected Essays and Reviews (1986). In 1981 she was named Officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to literature.

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