She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Gallant's life in Paris is spent writing stories and participating in the occasional gallery opening and gala opening night exhibits. In 2004 Gallant was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship as well as a PEN/Nabokov Award. ”
In a review of her work in Books in Canada in 1978 Geoff Hancock asserts that “Mavis Gallant's fiction is among the finest ever written by a Canadian.

Mavis Leslie Gallant CC née Mavis Leslie Young (born 11 August 1922) is a Canadian writer.