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Mavis Gallant, the Glossary

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.^[1]

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Canadian expatriate writers
PEN/Nabokov Award winners
Prix Athanase-David winners
University of Toronto people

Acadians

The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.

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Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro are 20th-century Canadian short story writers, 20th-century Canadian women writers, 21st-century Canadian short story writers, Canadian women short story writers, Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature and Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.

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Antonine Maillet

Antonine Maillet, (born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. Mavis Gallant and Antonine Maillet are 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Canadian novelists, 20th-century Canadian women writers, Canadian women dramatists and playwrights, Canadian women novelists, Companions of the Order of Canada and Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers.

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Autobiographical novel

An autobiographical novel, also known as a autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Books in Canada

Books in Canada was a monthly magazine that reviewed Canadian literature, published in print form between 1971 and 2008.

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (p; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.

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Camden House Publishing

Camden House, Inc. was founded in 1979 by professors James Hardin and Gunther Holst with the purpose of publishing scholarly books in the field of German literature, Austrian Literature, and German language culture.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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CTV Drama Channel

CTV Drama Channel is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media.

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Douglas Gibson

Douglas Maitland Gibson,C.M. (born December 4, 1943) is a Canadian editor, publisher and writer. Mavis Gallant and Douglas Gibson are Canadian newspaper journalists.

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Eleanor Wachtel

Eleanor Wachtel (born 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. Mavis Gallant and Eleanor Wachtel are Writers from Montreal.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine.

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Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith; June 23, 1957) is an American actress and producer.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Giller Prize

The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.

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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English. Mavis Gallant and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction are Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers.

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Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best-selling works in publishing history.

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Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar is an American monthly women's fashion magazine.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author. Mavis Gallant and Henry James are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Ideas (radio show)

Ideas is a long-running scholarly radio documentary series on CBC Radio One, first broadcast in 1965.

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Infobase

Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.

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Jack Schaefer

Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 – 24 January 1991) was an American writer known for his Westerns.

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Jacques Chambrun

Jacques Chambrun (April 24, 1906 – September 8, 1976) was an American literary agent active in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Janice Kulyk Keefer

Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 2 June 1952) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Mavis Gallant and Janice Kulyk Keefer are 20th-century Canadian novelists, 20th-century Canadian women writers and Canadian women novelists.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob. Mavis Gallant and Jhumpa Lahiri are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. Mavis Gallant and John Cheever are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Mavis Gallant and John Updike are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Legum Doctor

Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or, in English, Doctor of Laws, is a doctorate-level academic degree in law or an honorary degree, depending on the jurisdiction.

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Literary agent

A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers, and film studios, and assists in sale and deal negotiation.

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Macmillan of Canada

Macmillan of Canada was a Canadian publishing house.

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Mademoiselle (magazine)

Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street & Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.

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Matt Cohen Award

The Matt Cohen Award is an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer, in honour of a distinguished lifetime contribution to Canadian literature.

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McClelland & Stewart

McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company.

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Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Mavis Gallant and Michael Ondaatje are 20th-century Canadian novelists, Companions of the Order of Canada, Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers and Writers from Montreal.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Montreal Standard

The Montreal Standard, later known as The Standard, was a national weekly pictorial newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, founded by Hugh Graham.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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National Post

The National Post is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of Postmedia Network.

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Northern Review

Northern Review was a Montreal-based literary magazine published in Canada between 1945 and 1956.

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O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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PEN/Nabokov Award

The PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, commonly referred to as the PEN/Nabokov Award, is awarded biennially by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to writers, principally novelists, "whose works evoke to some measure Nabokov's brilliant versatility and commitment to literature as a search for the deepest truth and the highest pleasure— what Nabokov called the 'indescribable tingle of the spine'." The winner is awarded $50,000 as of 2016.

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Peter Lang (publisher)

Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.

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Postmedia Network

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a foreign-owned Canadian-based media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in English-language newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations.

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Prix Athanase-David

The Prix Athanase-David is a literary award presented annually by the government of Quebec as part of the Prix du Québec to a Quebec writer, to honour the body of his or her work.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Gallant

Also known as Marvis Gallant, Varieties of Exile.

, Prix Athanase-David, Quebec, Quebec Writers' Federation Awards, Queen's University at Kingston, Quill & Quire, Rea Award for the Short Story, Robert Fulford (journalist), Russell Banks, Sadia Shepard, Selected Shorts, Short story, Stéphan Bureau, Tamarack Review, The Canadian Encyclopedia, The French Dispatch, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Southern Review, The Walrus, Toronto Star, University of Toronto, W. Somerset Maugham, Wes Anderson, Winnipeg, Writers & Company.

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See also

Canadian expatriate writers

PEN/Nabokov Award winners

Prix Athanase-David winners

University of Toronto people

References