Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) was a renowned Canadian short story writer, born in Montreal, who moved to Paris in 1950 to pursue writing full-time and published 116 stories in The New Yorker. Best known for collections like The Other Paris (1956), Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981, Governor General's Award winner), and From the Fifteenth District (1979), she received major honors including Companion of the Order of Canada, PEN/Nabokov Award (2004), and Prix Athanase-David (2006). Her precise, ironic prose explored themes of exile, displacement, and human disconnection.