Trivia

She was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 22, 1981 and C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on October 21, 1992 for her services to literature.

She returned to Canada as writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto in 1983-84. Although she lived most of her adult life in Paris, she retained her Canadian citizenship.

In 1950, she left Montreal for Europe, where she eventually settled in Paris. She lived in a small apartment on the Rive Gauche until her death.

She began writing as a child, at first poetry and then short stories, which became her forte.

She attended 17 schools during her childhood, often as the only anglophone among a francophone student body.

Writer.

First came to Europe at the age of 28.