Gabrielle Roy

Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983), born in Saint-Boniface, the French-speaking quarter of Winnipeg, the youngest of the eleven children of a colonization agent, taught for eight years in Manitoba schools. Two years in Europe, from 1937 to 1939, made up her mind to write, and she became a journalist in Montreal for the Bulletin des agriculteurs. Three times winner of the country's highest literary distinction, she lived in Quebec City, spent her summers at Petite-Rivière-Saint-François and shunned almost all public life. She died in Quebec City.

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• NovelThe Tin FluteBonheur d'occasionGabrielle Roy · 1945Literature