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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.
Apr 2, 2008 · Mavis Leslie Gallant, CC, writer (born 11 August 1922 in Montréal, QC; died 18 February 2014 in Paris, France). In 1950, 28-year-old Montréal native Mavis Gallant decided to do something that many, many before and after her have done. She decided to move to Paris and become a writer.
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