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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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