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Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, CC, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
Feb 18, 2014 · Mavis Gallant, an acclaimed short-story writer who was abandoned as a child and later left Canada for Europe, where she made her name writing about the dislocated and the dispossessed,...
Mavis Gallant (born August 11, 1922, Montreal, Quebec, Canada—died February 18, 2014, Paris, France) was a Canadian-born writer of essays, novels, plays, and especially short stories, almost all of which were published initially in The New Yorker magazine.
Mavis Gallant, The Art of Fiction No. 160. Interviewed by Daphne Kalotay. Issue 153, Winter 1999. COURTESY MAVIS GALLANT. Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal in 1922, the only child of an Anglo-Scottish businessman and his American wife. Her father, an amateur painter, died when she was ten; her mother soon remarried.
Feb 18, 2014 · Masterly Canadian short story writer and novelist who settled in Paris where she perfected her meditative, wry and lyrical style. Christopher Hawtree. Tue 18 Feb 2014 13.05 EST....
Apr 22, 2020 · The often somber tone of Mavis Gallant’s (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014) work is strengthened by the combination of acute lucidness and understated stylistic richness. Gallant is a remarkable observer. She succeeds in creating worlds that are both familiar and foreign, appealing yet uninviting.
Feb 22, 2014 · Mavis Gallant. “I’m forced to say that it seems very unsatisfying to me, and simply no story at all, if the ending is to be left so far in the air,” a New Yorker editor wrote in an internal ...
Jun 4, 2013 · This was Mavis Gallant, then 29 years old, who had just sold her first stories to The New Yorker 's legendary fiction editor, William Maxwell. But the check, the only income she could count...
Feb 18, 2014 · Canadian journalist and fiction writer. In her twenties, Gallant worked as a reporter for the Montreal Standard. She left journalism in 1950 to pursue fiction writing. To that end, always needing autonomy and privacy, she moved to France.
Aug 5, 2022 · Canadian short story writer Mavis Gallant, who died in 2014 at 91, would have turned 100 on Aug. 11, 2022. Eleanor Wachtel interviewed the literary legend at CBC's Paris studios in January 2008...
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