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Gabrielle Roy 🇨🇦

Gabrielle Roy (Known as "Gabrielle Roy")
Franco-Manitoban Literary Giant, Author of The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion)
Born Mar 22, 1909 🇨🇦 Saint-Boniface (Winnipeg, Manitoba), Canada
Passed Away Jul 13, 1983 Quebec City (Quebec), Canada
Lifespan 74 years old
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"Could we ever know each other in the least without the art that reveals the hidden depths of the human heart?"

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Beloved French-Canadian novelist whose 1945 masterpiece Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) won France's prestigious Prix Fémina and inaugurated modern realistic Quebec literature prior to the Quiet Revolution.

Biographical Record

Born in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Roy taught school before moving to Europe to study drama. Returning to Canada on the eve of World War II, she settled in Montreal as a journalist, closely observing the impoverished working-class conditions of the Saint-Henri neighbourhood.

In 1945, Roy published Bonheur d'occasion, an unprecedented, compassionate portrait of urban poverty during wartime that won international acclaim and France's Prix Fémina. A three-time Governor General's Award winner and Companion of the Order of Canada, her later works beautifully captured prairie pioneer life.

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Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont
Quebec City (Quebec), Canada
GPS: 46.7972, -71.2611
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