Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC ( born March 22, 1909 in Saint- Boniface, now part of Winnipeg; † July 13, 1983 in Québec City ) was a French- Canadian author. It is one of the most important Canadian writers of the postwar period.
Life
Gabrielle Roy was the youngest of eight children in a French-Canadian family in Saint -Boniface. She grew up in the rural part of Manitoba, but was also influenced by the cosmopolitan immigrants. Her father took care of as a civil servant to the immigrants and their integration. Your school and youth she spent there until 1937. Having Roy was first drawn in the summer of 1937 in northern Manitoba, she went for two years to France and England, where she began writing. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she returned back to Canada, where they settled in Quebec. Her first novel Bonheur d'occasion in 1945 drew a realistic portrait of the working class people of Saint -Henri, a south-west of Montreal. The book was awarded in 1947 in the original French edition of the Prix Femina in Paris and in New York the Governor General's Award for Fiction. The influence of this book, however, ranged deep into the population and is considered as a triggering element for the Quiet Revolution. The book was translated into English in 1947 ( The Tin Flute ) and sold in the United States over three quarters of a million times. It attracted so much public attention after that Roy decided again to withdraw to Manitoba.
In August 1947, Roy married the doctor Marcel Carbotte. In 1950 she wrote during their stay in France La Petite Poule d' eau, which is based in part on their autobiographical memory. Although her the dark and emotive novel Alexandre Chenevert (1954 ) brought a lot of criticism, he is considered one of the most important works of psychological realism in Canadian literature. In 1963, she advocated that the Expo 67, the motto Terres des Hommes and Man and His World got what goes back to Antoine de Saint- Exupéry's book Wind, Sand and Stars.
Gabrielle Roy died at the age of 73 from heart failure. Her autobiography La Détresse et l' enchantement was published posthumously in 1984.
Honors
Roy is one of the most important and influential writers of the French-speaking Canada. In addition to literary awards, she was also honored elsewhere. So wear some schools in Canada its name as well as the library in Québec. The Canadian National Library Library and Archives Canada presented both their published and unpublished works, correspondence and manuscripts. In 1967 she was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada. On 29 September 2004, the Bank of Canada on the 20 dollar bill a quote from Roy from the novel The Hidden Mountain (La montagne secrète ):
"Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? "
" Can we ever learn something from us, without the slightest consideration for art? "
The house in Winnipeg, where she lived from 1909 to 1937 with her family, was restored and opened in 2003 as a historical museum for the public.
Works (selection)
- God goes further than we humans Übers Theodor Rocholl, List 1956
- Road to Altamont Übers Renate Benson, Nachw Arnim Arnold, Manesseplatz Publisher 1970