2021 film The French Dispatch on "The Events in May: A Paris Notebook", a two-part New Yorker story written by Gallant. A fictional reporter inspired by Gallant was portrayed in the film by actress Frances McDormand. References External links 1922 births 2014 deaths Canadian women novelists Canadian women journalists Companions of the Order of Canada Writers from Paris Writers from Montreal Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Anglophone Quebec people University of Toronto people Prix Athanase-David winners Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers PEN/Nabokov Award winners 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian novelists Canadian expatriates in France Canadian newspaper journalists Canadian women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Canadian women essayists Canadian people of Romanian descent Canadian people of English descent Canadian women short story writers 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 20th-century Canadian essayists 21st-century Canadian essayists Canadian expatriate writers Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters