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
"She
was also a woman ahead of her time, blazing a trail of independence
that took courage and determination that inspired legions of other
authors who count her influence as seminal to their own careers." - Douglas Pepper"...one who honours in every sentence she writes the deepest, most time-honoured principles of composition: honesty, clarity, and concision." - Russell Banks
"...she has written the truest words about writing that I've ever
encountered. 'Like every other form of art literature is no more and
nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth
asking about a story is, 'Is it dead or alive?' Her work, needless to
say, is ferociously alive."- Catherine Bush 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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