Gabrielle roy autobiography

French-Canadian writer. Born on March 22, 1909, in St. Boniface, Manitoba; died of heart failure on July 13, 1983; youngest of 11 children of Léon Roy and Mélina Roy; sister of Bernadette "Dédette" Roy; attended Winnipeg Normal Institute; married Marcel Carbotte (a physician), in 1945.

Selected works:

Bonheur d'occasion (1945, published in English as The Tin Flute, 1947); La Petite Poule d'Eau (1950, published in English as Where Nests the Water Hen, 1951); Rue Deschambault (1955, published in English as Street of Riches, 1956); La Montagne Secrète (1961, published in English as The Secret Mountain, 1962); Ces Enfants de ma vie (1977, published in English as Children of My Heart ); (autobiography) La Détresse et l'enchantment (1984, published in English as Enchantment and Sorrow, 1987); Letters to Bernadette (1990).

Born the youngest of 11 children in St.

Boniface, Manitoba, in 1909, Gabrielle Roy was four years old when he