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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 ...
11 mag 2024 · Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. 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.
24 apr 2024 · Mavis Gallant died on 18 February 2014 – a couple of weeks ago. She had been on my radar for many years: I’d managed to acquire four collections of her stories, without ever reading them. Death is a great catalyst.
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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,...
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. Gallant is…
3 giorni fa · There were a lot of people at her time. 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. What book would you recommend to someone who doesn’t know her work? She was prolific.
1 mag 2024 · Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Varieties of Exile,” by Mavis Gallant, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” and the story collec…. 01:19:09.
