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The Cellist of Sarajevo Lesson Plan

About the Author

Steven Galloway is a Canadian writer best known for his novel The Cellist of Sarajevo. Galloway was born on July 13th, 1975 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He attended the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia. He taught creative writing at the latter, as well as at Simon Fraser University.

Galloway has written four novels: Finnie Walsh (2000), Ascension (2003), The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008), and The Confabulist (2014). His books received numerous accolades.

Galloway was chair of Creative Writing at UBC when the university suspended him without pay for unspecified sexual harassment allegations. Many in the Canadian academic and literary worlds were...

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