Gabrielle Roy
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French Canadian fiction writer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1909
- Died
- 1983
- Works
- 172
Top works
- the cashier
- Temps Qui M'a Manque
- the tin flute
- The Tin Flute
- Old Man and the Child
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 10
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,505x
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,047x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.
· 1995 · cited 14,826x
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Quotes
- “Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”
- “Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery,the young man murmured.”
- “She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.”
- “The sun was already a bright, running brook. From the gables of the houses hung sharp-pointed icicles, like gleaming crystal. From time to time one would break off with a snap, and crash at Rose-Anne's feet in shining shards. She progressed very slowly, afraid of falling, always seeking a hand-hold somewhere. Then she would be in soft snow again, which meant harder work but less fear of a slip and fall.”
- “She moved slowly, and her coat, too tight, made her belly stick out more prominently. With the two dollars deep in her purse she wandered off, more uncertain than ever, for now she saw the shining pans and pots and the cloth, so soft to the touch. Her desires grew vast and many, and she left, poorer certainly than when she had come in the store.”
- “That was when she recognized love: this torture on seeing someone, the greater torture when he was out of sight, in short, a torture without end.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1909-03-22 ) March 22, 1909, Saint Boniface , Manitoba , Canada
- Died
- July 13, 1983 (1983-07-13) (aged 74), Quebec City , Quebec , Canada
- Occupation
- Novelist, teacher
- Language
- French
- Genre
- Canadian literature , Children's literature
- Literary movement
- CanLit, Feminism
- Notable works
- The Tin Flute Street of Riches The Fragile Lights of Earth Children of My Heart
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Gabrielle Roy ( French pronunciation: [ɡabʁijɛl ʁwa]; March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba. She became one of the major voices in French-language literature in Canada, known for her portrayals of working-class life in Manitoba and Quebec and for her clear, straightforward prose. Her first novel, Bonheur d’occasion (The Tin Flute), brought her national and international recognition, including major literary awards in both Canada and France. She went on to publish fiction, memoir, and children’s literature, and her work remains central to the development of modern Canadian writing in French. She was designated a National Historic Person by the Government of Canada in 2009.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gabrielle Roy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.