• 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...
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    lyricist Charles Jefferys wrote, "I have heard the mavis singing its love-song to the morn." Mavis was among the top 100 names for newborn girls in New...
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  • with The New Yorker: Harold Ross, William Shawn, Rosamond Bernier, Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A. J. Liebling, S. N. Behrman, Lillian Ross, Janet Flanner...
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  • and lobbyist Lennie Gallant (born 1955), Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Gallant (born 1964), American television host Mavis Gallant (1922–2014), Canadian...
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    Foreign Policy, was short-listed for the Quebec Writers' Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction. Engler moved to Montreal to study at Concordia...
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  • seven literary categories: Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry Concordia University...
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  • the 2010 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction, and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction...
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    almost." Gallant found the short novel to be "as casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. Nabokov's genius." Mavis Gallant, "Transparent...
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    and Claire Fuller. Canadian short story writers include Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant and Lynn Coady. In 2013, Alice Munro became the first writer of nothing...
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  • short-story writers, Mavis Gallant, and specifically to her story 'The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street'", adding that Gallant's piece "feels so Pakistani...
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  • ISBN 9780802098771. "Mysterious Mavis" Archived March 24, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. CanWest News Service, April 30, 2006. "Mavis Gallant was very much Canada's"...
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  • Lost in the Barrens (1956). Following World War II, writers such as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Norman Levine, Sheila Watson, Margaret Laurence and...
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  • 1950s. He worked with a wide swath of clients, including novelists Mavis Gallant, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, W. Somerset Maugham, Grace Metalious...
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    Maeve Brennan, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Mavis Gallant, Geoffrey Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Ruth McKenney, John...
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  • from Quebec. She has twice won the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, in 1999 for Putting Down Roots and in 2003 for...
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    Facebook post, Prose accused the author Sadia Shepard of plagiarizing Mavis Gallant's "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street", which had appeared in The New...
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    Rudolf (UK) Eugène Ionesco  Romania/ France Iordan Chimet (Romania) Mavis Gallant  Canada/ France Mordecai Richler (Canada) 1988 Raja Rao  India Edwin...
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    Levitin's four books, receiving the National Business Book Award, the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, the Axiom Business Book Award, and was a finalist...
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    Girls Who are Afraid of Social Agencies". In the article, staff writer Mavis Gallant wrote that young girls were exploited by the Youngs and bullied into...
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  • Fleming Cynthia Flood Tess Fragoulis Raymond Fraser Kathy Friedman Mavis Gallant Hugh Garner Zsuzsi Gartner Elyse Gasco Bill Gaston Connie Gault Margaret...
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  • the veracity of information received through mass media. It won the Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction, The National Business Book Award, a Silver Medal...
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    ISBN 0-676-97299-3; New York: Anchor, 2001 2002: Edited and wrote introduction, Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories, New York: New York Review Books 1966: The Offering -...
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  • did a live episode where Margaret Atwood read Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant. Sarah Bannan praised the show in The Irish Times saying "the writers...
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  • folie à deux. Academic Karen E. Smythe, in analyzing the fiction of Mavis Gallant, described mimpathy as a combination of mimesis and empathy, an acting...
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    Sacré Blues, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and McAuslan First Book Prize. His fourth book...
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    edited by David Applefield with contributions from writers such as Mavis Gallant and John Berger, and Whitman's own The Paris Magazine (or "The Poor...
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  • may also refer to: My Heart Is Broken, 1964 collection of stories by Mavis Gallant "My Heart Is Broken", song by Ryan Adams from Jacksonville City Nights...
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  • Magazine collection [graphic material]". Mavis Gallant at The Canadian Encyclopedia. Victoria Ahearn, "Mavis Gallant, legendary short story writer, dies at...
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  • Fortin Louis-Honoré Fréchette Christiane Frenette Madeleine Gagnon Mavis Gallant François-Xavier Garneau Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau Phillipe-Ignace...
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  • [Škvorecký] as the leading Czech prose writer of the post-Stalin era." Mavis Gallant also admired Miss Silver's Past. Kirkus Reviews was scathing, saying...
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