With Alice Munro, Gallant was one of a few Canadian authors whose works regularly appeared in The New Yorker. In 2004, Gallant was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Henry Prize Stories of 2003 was dedicated to her. In 2000, she won the Matt Cohen Prize, and in 2002 the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 1989, Gallant was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1993 she was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1991 Queen’s University awarded her an honorary LL.D. In 1983-84, she returned to Canada as the University of Toronto's writer-in-residence. That same year she also received the Governor General's Award for literature for her collection of stories, Home Truths. In 1981, Gallant was honoured by her native country and made an Officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to literature. To that end, always needing autonomy and privacy, she moved to France. She left journalism in 1950 to pursue fiction writing. In her twenties, Gallant worked as a reporter for the Montreal Standard.
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