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.
Books in order of publication:
Novellas and short stories
The Other Paris (Houghton Mifflin, 1956).
My Heart Is Broken: Eight Stories and a Short Novel (Random House, 1964).
The Pegnitz Junction: A Novella and Five Short Stories (1973)
The End of the World and Other Stories (1974)
From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Stories (1979)
Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris (1985)
In Transit: Twenty Stories (1988)
Across the Bridge: Stories (1993)
Compilations
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories (1994)
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant (1996, Random House)
The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant (1996, McClelland & Stewart)
Paris Stories (2002, New York Review Books)
Varieties of Exile (2003, New York Review Books)
Montreal Stories (2004, McClelland & Stewart)
Going Ashore: Stories (2009, McClelland & Stewart) 31 previously uncollected stories.
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories (2009, New York Review Books). 19 stories from Going Ashore, and an additional story, “Rose”.
The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant (2024, New York Review Books)
Novels
Green Water, Green Sky (Houghton Mifflin, 1959).
A Fairly Good Time (Random House, 1970).
Plays
What Is to Be Done?, 1983
Non-fiction
Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews, 1986
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