Mavis Gallant

Author profile

born

August 11, 1922 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

About this author

edit data

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.

In 1981, Gallant was honoured by her native country and made an Officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to literature. That same year she also received the Governor General's Award for literature for her collection of stories, Home Truths. In 1983-84, she returned to Canada as the University of Toronto's writer-in-residence. In 1991 Queen’s University awarded her an honorary LL.D. In 1993 she was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada.

In 1989, Gallant was made a Foreign Honorary Member of...more

combine editions
Books by Mavis Gallant

Average rating: 4.02 · 947 ratings · 159 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant, Michael Ondaatje (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant, Russell Banks (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories by Mavis Gallant, Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction) 4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	From the Fifteenth District 3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant 4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Stories 4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Home Truths 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Montreal Stories 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Overhead In A Balloon And Other Stories 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Moslem Wife and Other Stories by Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler (Afterword) 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:

More books by Mavis Gallant…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Mavis Gallant

“Marie, now Mme. Driscoll, turned to Berthe and smiled, as she used to when they were children. Once again, the smile said, Have I done the right thing? Is this what you wanted? Yes, yes, said Berthe silently, but she went on crying.”
― Mavis Gallant, Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

tags: family-duty , family-love

1 person liked it

“She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.”
― Mavis Gallant, Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

tags: canadians , montreal , patience , winter

1 person liked it

“I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?”
― Mavis Gallant, The Selected Stories Of Mavis Gallant

1 person liked it

See all Mavis Gallant's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Next Best Boo...: please recommend genius works by women authors	42	460	Sep 13, 2009 08:51am
CBC Books: Gallant, Mavis	1	4	Mar 24, 2011 03:37pm
CanLit Challenge: From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant, #29	1	5	May 24, 2011 01:35pm
I Love Canadian A...: Recommendation?	17	73	Jul 22, 2011 09:41am

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Mavis to Goodreads.

Mavis's Fans (21)

Mavis Gallant

Author profile

combine editionsBooks by Mavis Gallant

Upcoming Events

Quotes by Mavis Gallant

Topics Mentioning This Author

combine editions
Books by Mavis Gallant