Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983)
Auteur de Bonheur d'occasion
A propos de l'auteur
Gabrielle Roy was born on March 22, 1909 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada. She attended the Winnipeg Normal Institute, where she earned top honors in both her English and French classes. After she completed her schooling, she spent a month teaching in the summer before accepting a job at a school afficher plus for a year. In 1930, after that first year of teaching, she was offered a permanent position in St. Boniface. Roy decided that she wanted to go to Europe for a year with the meagre savings she had managed to accumulate throughout her seven years teaching in St. Boniface. When asked, she would tell people that she was going to France and England to study Drama. She had been a member of a drama troupe, Le Cercle Molière, throughout her teaching years. Once there, she took a teaching post in the summer of 1937 to gain enough to survive in Europe. She had planned to only stay a year, but that turned into two, and would have been longer if not for the outbreak of World War II. It was here that Roy began to write, and published a few articles in a French journal. Roy returned to Canada and made her home in Montreal where for six years she earned a living as a freelance reporter. Her first novel, Bonheur d'Occasion started out as a newspaper article and turned into a novel over 800 pages long. It was published in 1945. In 1947, she won the Prix Fémina from France for Bonheur d'Occasion, and the Governor General's award for the English translation, The Tin Flute. She returned to France, to the place that had originally inspired her writing and in 1950 published La Petite Poule d'Eau (Where Nests the Water Hen), after her return to Canada. 1957 also brought Roy her second Governor General's award, this time for the English translation of Rue Deschambault (Street of Riches), a novel she published in 1955. For the next several years, Roy received many awards as well as critical success, but it was not until 1978 that she won her third and final Governor General's award for Ces Enfants de Ma Vie (Children of My Heart). This was her final novel, although a compilation of some of her work as a journalist, and several children's books followed this last book. Roy's autobiography La Détresse et l'Enchantement (Enchantment and Sorrow) was not published until 1984, a year after her death. Gabrielle Roy died on July 13, 1983 of heart failure. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Gabrielle Roy
Bonheur d’occasion, Tome 2 3 exemplaires
Pět kanadských novel : (Québec) 3 exemplaires
Terre des hommes - Man and his world 3 exemplaires
Luzina Takes A Holiday 2 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributeur — 1,132 exemplaires
Cavalcade of the North: An Entertaining Collection of Distinguished Writing by Canadian Authors (1958) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States (1999) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Roy, Gabrielle
- Nom légal
- Charbotte, Gabrielle Roy (married)
- Date de naissance
- 1909-03-22
- Date de décès
- 1983-07-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
- Lieu du décès
- Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
Quebec, Canada - Études
- Saint Joseph's Academy
Winnipeg Normal School - Professions
- school teacher
novelist
short-story writer
freelance reporter - Prix et distinctions
- Lorne Pierce Medal (1948)
Order of Canada (Companion ∙ 1967)
Molson Prize (1977)
Prix Athanase-David (1971)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 30
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,808
- Popularité
- #14,230
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 54
- ISBN
- 138
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 7
> LA DÉTRESSE ET L’ENCHANTEMENT, de Gabrielle Roy, Boréal compact, 506 pages. — C’EST toujours un enchantement de lire Gabrielle Roy, même lorsqu’elle raconte ses années de détresse. Cette autobiographie devait comprendre quatre volets, seulement deux ont été menés à terme. Laissons l’éditeur, en l’occurrence François Ricard, résumer le contenu de l’ouvrage : « ... ces deux volets retracent tout ce qu’on pourrait appeler les années de formation de Gabrielle Roy, depuis son enfance franco-manilobaine jusqu’à son retour d’Europe à la veille de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, trois ou quatre ans avant qu’elle entreprenne d’écrire son premier roman, Bonheur d'occasion. » (Guy FERLAND)
—Le devoir, 17 septembre 1988, D-7… (plus d'informations)