Mavis Gallant

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Mavis Gallant CC (born August 11, 1922 in Montreal , Québec , † February 18, 2014 in Paris ) was a Canadian , English-speaking journalist and writer .

Life

Gallant was born as Mavis Leslie Young in 1922, the only child into a failed family. Her father died early and the mother very soon remarried. Mavis was educated in numerous public and convent schools, including a French-speaking boarding school, and lived at times with a foster family in New England .

After finishing school, Gallant returned to Canada and worked briefly in the editing room for the National Film Board of Canada . In 1944 she became a reporter for the Montreal Standard . She married the musician John Gallant from Winnipeg . However, the couple divorced very soon. By 1950 she published her first short stories, including for her newspaper's magazine and The Northern Review at Yukon College in Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory .

In 1950, Gallant decided to leave Canada, went to Europe, and settled in Paris forever . Many of her over 100 short stories were first published in the US magazine The New Yorker . Only after three decades did she find recognition and honors in her home country. Her second home, France, also attracts attention in her work. Many of her stories are about lonely children and teenagers and thus reflect their own difficult childhood. Other topics are stories about people who have left their homeland and who only feel like guests or tourists in their new surroundings.

honors and awards

Works

Short stories and novellas
  • 1956: The Other Paris .
  • 1964: My Heart Is Broken. Eight Stories and a Short Novel. Random House, New York; again Penguin, New York 1991, ISBN 0-140152288
    • Einzelerz., Transl. Peter Kleinhempel: Bernadette. In the long journey. Canadian short stories and short stories. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1974, pp. 70-102
  • 1973: The Pegnitz Junction. (1 novella, 5 stories)
  • 1974: The End of the World and other Stories .
  • 1979: From the Fifteenth District. (1 novella, 8 stories)
    • 1992: Translated from Eva Bornemann, Helga Pfetsch: Late homecoming . Rowohlt, Reinbek ISBN 3-499-12995-7
  • 1981: Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories . MacMillan of Canada, Toronto ISBN 0-771596006
    • Excerpt, translator Ursula Flitner: The orphan trip , in: Women in Canada. Stories and poems. dtv, Munich 1993 pp. 82–90 (Orphans' Progress)
  • 1985: Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris
  • 1988: In transit
    • 1998: Translated by Barbara Bechtolsheim, Reinhild Böhnke, Eva Bornemann, Helga Pfetsch: Transit guests: stories. Eichborn, Frankfurt ISBN 3-8218-4167-2 series Die other library
  • 1993: Across the Bridge and Other Stories
  • 1994: The Muslim Wife and other Stories. Selected by Mordecai Richler . MacClellan and Stewart, Toronto ISBN 0-7710-9891-X
  • 1996: The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant. ISBN 0-7710-3308-7
    • 1996: The state of affairs. Translated by Reinhild Böhnke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt ISBN 3-10-024409-5
  • 2004: Montreal Stories
  • 2009: Going Ashore . Douglas Gibson Books ISBN 978-0-7710-3538-8
  • 2010: The Cost of Living . Bloomsbury, London ISBN 978-1-4088-0849-8
Novels
  • 1959: Green Water, Green Sky
    • 1997: Green water, green sky. Translated by Reinhild Böhnke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt ISBN 3-10-024410-9
  • 1970: A Fairly Good Time
Play
  • 1983: What Is to Be Done. WP: Tarragona Theater, Toronto
Essays
  • 1986: Paris Notebooks
  • 2002: Paris Stories. Selected essays and reviews

literature

  • Nicole Côté, Petr Sabor: Varieties of Exile: New Essays of Mavis Gallant. Peter Lang, Bern 2002, ISBN 0-8204-5693-4
  • Kristjana Gunnars: Transient Questions. New Essays on Mavis Gallant. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2004
  • Stephen Scobie: The Magic of the Corner. Mavis Gallant on the streets of Paris, May 1968 , in Literary Environments. Canada and the old world. Edited by Britta Olinder. Peter Lang, Bern 2006 (Études canadiennes, 5) pp. 199–207
  • Helmut Bonheim: The aporias of Lily Littel. Mavis Gallant's "Acceptance of their ways". In: ARIEL. A Review of International English Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press , Vol. 18, H. 4.1987 ISSN  1920-1222 pp. 69-78

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mavis Gallant, short-story master, dies aged 91 , The Guardian
  2. ^ Honorary Members: Mavis Gallant. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gallant, Mavis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Trafford Young, Mavis Leslie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2014
Place of death Paris