Officer of the Order of Canada
- Awarded on: June 22, 1981
- Invested on: October 21, 1981
Following an early journalistic and writing career in Montreal, she has made her home in Paris since the fifties. The cogency, subtlety and tolerance which characterize her short stories and novels have won her the acclaim and affection of a vast international public, particularly through her contributions to the New Yorker magazine.