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Mavis Gallant was born Mavis de Trafford Young in Montreal in 1922. She worked for the National Film Board and the Montreal Standard before moving to Europe in 1950. Gallant lives in Paris.

Books by Mavis Gallant

	1956 The Other Paris (short stories)	Biblio.com
	1959 Green Water, Green Sky (novel)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1964 My Heart is Broken (short stories) (also published as An Unmarried Man's Summer)	Biblio.com
	1970 A Fairly Good Time (novel)	Biblio.com
	1973 The Pegnitz Junction (novella, short stories)	Biblio.com
	1973 The End of the World and Other Stories (short stories)	Biblio.com
	1979 From the Fifteenth District (novella, short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1981 Home Truths (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1984 What Is to Be Done? (play)	Biblio.com
	1985 Overhead in a Balloon (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1986 Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews	Biblio.com
	1988 In Transit (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1993 Across the Bridge (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1994 The Moslem Wife and Other Stories (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1996 The Selected Stories (short stories) (also published as The Collected Stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2002 Paris Stories (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2003 Varieties of Exile (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2004 Montreal Stories (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2009 Going Ashore (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2008 – From the Fifteenth District – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1981 – Home Truths – Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 1992 – Companion

Books about Mavis Gallant

Added 12 February 2008.
Updated 10 August 2009.