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Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983).
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Temptations of Big Bear
, for which he
won the Governor General's Award,
describes the disintegration of native
culture as a result of the growth of the
Canadian nation.
In 1945, the Franco-Manitoban Gabrielle
Roy published one of the great classics
of French Canadian literature:
Bonheur
d'occasion
(
The Tin Flute)
. Many other
works followed, making her one of the
Canada's most celebrated authors.
Nancy Huston was born in Calgary,
where she lived for 15 years. More than
20 years ago, after a fi ve-year stay in
New York City, she decided to relocate
to Paris, where she fi nished her doc-
toral studies in semiology under the
tutelage of Roland Barthes. After win-
ning the Governor General's Award in
1993 for her novel
Cantique des Plaines
(
Plainsong
) she became a major con-
tributor to French-language literature.
Though an anglophone, she writes fi rst
in French and then translates her own
work into English. She has since written
several other successful works.
The writings of Jane Rule, an American
who has lived in British Columbia since
1956, refl ect a mentality that is typical
of both the American and Canadian
west. However, she is better known for
her efforts to bridge the gap between
the homosexual and heterosexual com-
munities.
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Nancy Huston.
© Monique Dykstra / Metropolis Bleu
underemployed generation. Coupland
has since shifted focus somewhat, hav-
ing taken to photography and writing
about his city and his country. In
City
of Glass
, published in 2000, Coupland
writes with typical humour and irony
about his home town and accompan-
Vancouver can be proud of its native
son, Douglas Coupland, who published
his fi rst novel,
Generation X
,
in 1991 at
the age of 30. His work coined a new
catch-phrase that is now used by every-
one from sociologists to ad agencies
to describe this young, educated and
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