Определение mavis gallant в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
orig. Mavis de Trafford Young born Aug. 11, 1922, Montreal, Que., Can. Canadian-born French writer. She moved to Europe in 1950 and settled in Paris. Her essays, novels, plays, and especially short stories delineate in unsentimental prose and with trenchant wit the isolation, detachment, and fear that afflict rootless North American and European expatriates. The New Yorker has published more than 100 of her stories (more than of any other writer) and much of her nonfiction