A Companion to the Order of Canada, Mavis Gallant was an accomplished journalist, a two time novelist and successful playwright. But without doubt, she is best known for her amazing short stories. She has had a dozen collection of stories published around the world. Incredibly, she has had 116 stories published in the New Yorker.
Although an ex-patriot for most of her adult life, her impact on Canadian literature is immense, as evident by the who's who of Canadian literati who cite her as a major influence.
She was our great writer. My hero." - Michael Ondaatje
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"...one who honours in every sentence she writes the deepest, most time-honoured principles of composition: honesty, clarity, and concision." - Russell Banks
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Among her most popular collections at our libraries are:
From the Fifteenth District: a novella and eight short stories (M), Paris Stories (M); and The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant (M).
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