Gabrielle Roy

Biography

Born with Saint-Boniface (forming now part of Winnipeg), in Manitoba, Gabrielle Roy was educated with the Saint-Joseph academy. After a formation of Teacher E at the Teacher training school of Winnipeg, she taught in the rural schools of Merchant and Cardinal and was then invested at the Provencher School in Saint-Boniface.

With its savings it could spend a certain time in Europe, but it was forced to return to the Canada to the release of the Second world war. It returned with its almost completed works but is established with the Quebec to earn its living like Journaliste while continuing to write Romance S.

Published in 1945, its first novel, Happiness of occasion , gave one carried sadly realistic of the lives of the inhabitants of Saint-Henri, a district of the Working class of Montreal. This novel had an significant impact on the perception of the urban condition in Quebec of this time, and it would have inspired the changes of the years to come. It gained the Prix of the General governor and was distributed through the North America as translated into a multitude of languages. This delivers attracted as well attention as Miss Roy returned in the West to escape the Publicité.

In August 1947, it married Marcel Carbotte, a Médecin of Saint-Boniface, and the couple left for the Europe where Cabotte studied the Gynécologie and Mrs. Roy spent her time writing.

Another of its novels deserved more success to him. Alexandre Chenevert is a history dark and moving which counts for one of the most important works of psychological realism in the history of the Canadian literature.

They return from Europe in 1950 and two years after, in 1952, Gabrielle and Marcel decide to move in the town of Quebec. They buy a country cottage with Small-River-Saint-François, very close to their permanent residence in Quebec. It is there that Gabrielle spends each summer until its death and where it writes almost all its novels.

She is regarded by several as one of most important the écrivaines French-speaking in the Canadian history. Its works received many literary prizes, including the Prix Femina of the France. It gained the Prix of literature of youth of the Council of arts of Canada, the Prix of the General governor three times, the Prix Athanase-David twice (1970), the Prix Duvernay and the Prix Molson. It obtains the Médaille of the Academy of the letters of Quebec in 1946. In 1948, the royal Société of Canada granted to him the Médaille Lorne Pierce. In 1967, it accepted the title of Companion of the Ordre of Canada.

Gabrielle Roy died at the age of seventy-four years in the town of Quebec. Its autobiography, entitled the Distress and the enchantment , was published in posthumous title in 1984. It covers the years of its childhood in Manitoba until the moment when it is established in Quebec.

The National library of Canada preserved a collection of its materials covering the years 1940 with 1983, including Manuscrit S, Tapuscrit S, galères of work published and not published such as the River without rest , - This summer which sang , a garden at the end of the world , These children of my life , and the Distress and the enchantment , of the personal correspondence of businesses and, the registers of businesses and the memories.

The principal library of the network of the 27 libraries of Quebec is named in its honor, the Gabrielle-Roy Library.

Ticket of 20$

A quotation of Gabrielle Roy is registered on the ticket of 20$ Canadian.

Us known us only a little ourselves, without arts!

The quotation is drawn from the novel the secret mountain of Gabrielle Roy. She recalls us that arts and the culture define which we are, as well as the beliefs, the values and the habits which we have in common.

Selected bibliography

Happiness of occasion (1945)
Alexandre Chenevert (1954)
the Small Water Hen (1950)
Street Deschambault (1955)
the secret Mountain (1961)
the Road of Altamont (1966)
the River without rest (1970)
This summer which sang (1972)
a garden at the end of the world (1975)
These Children of my life (1977)
Fragiles lights of the ground (1978)
My cow Bossie (1976)
Short-Tail (1979)
the Spanish one and Pekinese the (1987)

See too

List of the Canadian authors
List of Québécois writers
Price Gabrielle-Roy

External bonds

Gabrielle Roy, passion to write - Files of Radio-Canada
Library Gabrielle-Roy
Of small happinesses of occasion in images in the St-Henri district. On Villesindustrielles.com
Canadian Museum of civilizations - Private conversation - the room of the Canadian personalities

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