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- ↑ "Le prix littéraire Gibson". Les Lettres québécoises, Issues 13-23. 1979.
- ↑ "Gallant's collection of short stories takes fiction prize". The Globe and Mail , May 18, 1982.
- ↑ "Intersecting lives in Chateaupierre, a sort of limbo, a time and place out of mind". The Globe and Mail , July 4, 1981.
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