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Also Known As Mavis Leslie De Trafford Young
Born August 11, 1922 • Montreal • Canada
Died February 18, 2014 (aged 91) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors PEN/Nabokov Award (2004) • Governor General’s Literary Awards (1981)
Notable Works “Across the Bridge” • “Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories” • “In Transit” • “My Heart Is Broken” • “Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris” • “The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories” • “The Pegnitz Junction”

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Canadian writer and educator
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Alice Munro
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
British writer
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
American author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian author
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
British actor, author, and director