# Mavis Gallant
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Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, , née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
== Personal life ==
Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Albert Stewart Roy de Trafford Young, a Canadian furniture salesman and painter who was the son of an officer in the British Army, and his wife, Benedictine Wiseman.
Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 22, 2026: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Legendary American Author
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007): Author of “Slaughterhouse-Five” and other novels.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), interviewed on September 23, 1991 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff …
Episode 88: Fiction (Short Stories by Ha, Wolitzer, Gallant)
In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:
Bluebeard's First Wife: Stories by Ha Seong-Nan, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by U.S. author Hilma Wolitzer
The Uncollected Stories of Canadian author Mavis Gallant
Madeleine Dunnigan on heated rivalries, women writing desire, and boyhood’s pressure systems
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Madeleine Dunnigan’s fierce, unnerving coming-of-age novel, Jean, is set in the final weeks at Compton Manor, an all-boys school that sells itself as enlightened where desire moves like weather, and cruelty is a kind of social sport.
In this episode Dunnigan explains why the boarding…
Ep 28: Short Stories To Start The Year - Debuts to Classics
This week, Joseph and Amanda talk about some of their favourite short story collections - ranging from canonical gems to new voices - plus, as always, they talk about what they’ve been reading recently and discuss what they’re excited to read next.
(1:24) Bookish news
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BONUS READING | '1933' by Mavis Gallant
Instead of a paywalled reading from our memoir-in-progress, we decided to do something different & release this one for free. In the first of our bonus reading series, I read to Mum the short story '1933' by Canadian writer Mavis Gallant. Enjoy! ☺️🙏
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Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan - rerun
There can be few writers more deserving of Backlisted’s attention than the Irish writer, Maeve Brennan. An adopted New Yorker, Brennan died there in 1993 and was by that time so thoroughly forgotten in her native land, that she received no obituaries in any Irish papers. We are joined by the writer…
BONUS READING | 'Florida' by Mavis Gallant
I read to Mum the short story 'Florida' by Canadian writer Mavis Gallant. Enjoy! ☺️🙏
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BONUS READING | 'The End of the World' by Mavis Gallant
I read to Mum the short story 'The End of the World' by Canadian writer Mavis Gallant. Enjoy! ☺️🙏
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Book Public: 'My Heart Is Broken' by Mavis Gallant
A reflection on Mavis Gallant’s “My Heart Is Broken,” a powerful story about violence, silence and the limits of our ability to understand another person’s suffering.
BONUS READING | 'Acceptance of Their Ways' by Mavis Gallant
I read to Mum the short story 'Acceptance of Their Ways' by Canadian writer Mavis Gallant. Enjoy! ☺️🙏
Don't forget—
Mum & I are on Substack. Become a subscriber today by going to thebarrowpod.substack.com.
If you haven’t signed up yet, what are you waiting for? 🤷♀️📚🤷♂️
✅ Exclusive readings f…
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