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11 mag 2024 · The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, established in 1988, is awarded annually to an English-language non-fiction book written by a Quebec author. The award was original named the Non-fiction Prize, though it changed in 1999.
3 giorni fa · If you’re going to talk Canadians: Mavis Gallant. There was like a real revival of the short story. She had something to do with it, for sure. But I think it was also something in the zeitgeist.
3 giorni fa · È in questo clima e accanto a scrittrici quali Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Mavis Gallant, Marian Engel e Audrey Thomas, che Alice Ann Munro, nata e cresciuta a Wingham, un piccolo villaggio dell’Ontario occidentale, dove il padre, discendente del poeta e scrittore scozzese James Hogg, aveva un allevamento di tacchini, si forma, divenendo una attenta osservatrice di quel mondo chiuso ...
24 apr 2024 · Gallant was born in Montreal but lived in Paris for many years, and these two places provide the settings for almost all the stories here. The first four stories concern the Carette family, Montrealers whose lives we follow for 50 years in as many pages, from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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10 mag 2024 · March 26, 2024 • Mavis Gallant "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street" is one of Mavis Gallant's most beloved stories. Protagonist Peter Frazier is a Canadian married to a British wife, Sheilah.
12 mag 2024 · The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is the only international literary award of this scope developed in the United States. It is one of few international prizes for which poets, novelists and playwrights alike are equally eligible.
25 apr 2024 · Mavis Gallant, the Canadian doyenne of the short story, died aged 91 in Paris on February 18th. This marked the end of a writing career that spanned more that five decades and two continents.
