Gabrielle Roy was born on 22 March 1909 in St. Boniface, Manitoba. She graduated from the Winnipeg Normal Institute in 1929, taught school for several years, then moved to Europe for two years, returning to Canada in 1939. Roy worked as a freelance reporter in Montreal for the next six years. She married in 1947, spent three years in Europe, then moved to Quebec City in 1952. Roy died of heart failure on 13 July 1983.

Books by Gabrielle Roy

	1945 Bonheur d'occasion The Tin Flute
	1954 Alexandre Chenevert The Cashier
	1955 Rue Deschambault Street of Riches
	1960 La Petite Poule d'Eau Where Nests the Water Hen
	1961 La Montagne secrète The Hidden Mountain
	1966 La Route d'Altamont The Road Past Altamont
	1970 La Rivière sans repos Windflower
	1972 Cet été qui chantait Enchanted Summer
	1975 Un jardin au bout du monde Garden in the Wind
	1976 Ma vache Bossie My Cow Bossie
	1977 Ces enfants de ma vie Children of My Heart
	1978 Fragiles Lumières de la terre The Fragile Lights of Earth
	1979 Courte-Queue Cliptail
	1982 De quoi t'ennuies-tu, Éveline?
	1984 La Détresse et l'Enchantement Enchantment and Sorrow
	1986 L'Espagnole et la Pékinoise The Tortoiseshell and the Pekinese
	1988 Ma chère petite soeur: lettres à Bernadette, 1943-1970 Letters to Bernadette
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2007 – Children of My Heart – Shortlisted

• Le Combat des livres
  • 2008 – La détresse et l'enchantement – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1947 – The Tin Flute – Winner
  • 1957 – Street of Riches – Winner

• Governor General's Literary Award: Romans et nouvelles
  • 1977 – Ces enfants de ma vie – Winner

• Lorne Pierce Medal
  • 1948 Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 2000 – Companion

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Added 03 July 2006.
Updated 01 March 2015.