Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist at The Standard before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively she settled in Paris, where she still resides. She was first published in The New Yorker in 1951. NYRB Classics publishes two collections of her stories: Varieties of Exile and Paris Stories.

From the Review

December 5, 1985: Limpid Pessimist

Alexis translated in collaboration with the author by Walter Kaiser

Coup de Grâce translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

A Coin in Nine Hands translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz

Memoirs of Hadrian and Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey translated by Arthur Goldhammer

The Abyss translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

Oriental Tales translated in collaboration with the author by Alberto Manguel

The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays translated in collaboration with the author by Richard Howard

Plays translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz

Fires translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz

From New York Review Books

Varieties of Exile Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the qualms and quandaries of people who, whether from choice or necessity, have no place to call home.

Paris Stories Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.

Books by Mavis Gallant

Across the Bridge (1997)
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant (1996)
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories (1994)
Across the Bridge: Stories (1993)
Across the Bridge: Stories (1993)
In Transit: Twenty Stories (1989)
In Transit (1988)
Overhead in a Balloon: Twelve Stories of Paris (1987)
The Other Paris (1986)
Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews (1986)
Home Truths: Sixteen Stories (1985)
Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris (1985)
Green Water, Green Sky (1983)
What Is to Be Done? (1983)
Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Stories (1979)
From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Stories (1979)
The End of the World and Other Stories (1974)
The Pegnitz Junction; A Novella and Five Short Stories (1973)
The Other Paris; Stories (1970)