Survey of Authors & Secondary Sources

Survey of Authors & Secondary Sources

Author: Steven Galloway

Title: The Cellist of Sarajevo

To be honest I had never heard of Steven Galloway until Ms. Breivik presented us the list of all the books and authors. I asked Ms. Breivik what book would be interesting and she referred this novel to me. I searched up some reviews and they all had great responses to the novel so I thought that it would be a great choice for myself.

Steven Galloway was born July 1975 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is married and has 2 daughters. He attended the University College of Cariboo and the University of British Columbia. He is currently living in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. As a career he was an instructor in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and a mentor for the Writer’s Studio of Simon Fraser University.


In this photo "Steven Galloway"

Steven has published 3 books:

- Finnie Walsh (2000)

- Ascension (2003)

- The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008)

Steven Galloway has written all of his novels on true historical events with his touch of fiction. He was inspired to write the Cellist of Sarajevo because he was always interested in how war affects people. The Cellist of Sarajevo was inspired by a mortar attack on 22 people waiting in line at the market, and the cellist’s reaction to this tragedy. The mortar attack and the cellist are the true events and the characters and their stories are the fiction.

In this photo " the cellist playing for the 22 people who lost their lives."

His first two books are focused on more personal tragedy as The Cellist of Sarajevo is focused on the public. Finnie Walsh was written about two childhood friends that grew up playing hockey together. This book showed some events that happened in Steven Galloway’s early life. Ascension follows the same them of The Cellist of Sarajevo, focusing on tragedies in peoples’ lives.

Since Steven has only written 3 novels he could be considered a fairly new author, making it difficult to compare him to other authors’. One thing that I can relate to is World War 2 and how there is an area you may be killed in. In The Cellist of Sarajevo there is sniper alley where all of the characters fear of passing through. In World War 2 there was No Man’s Land, where you were almost guaranteed to die if you ventured into that area.


In this photo " No Man's Land."

Biography

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?YBE=A.D.&locID=ko_k12hs_d21&srchtp=advathr&c=1&NR=Steven+Galloway&ai=U20436302&docNum=H1000187416&bConts=2191&vrsn=3&OP=contains&YDE=A.D.&DYQ=is&ca=1&ste=6&BYQ=is&tab=1&tbst=arp&n=10&GD=any

Secondary Sources

"The Cellist of Sarajevo." Publishers Weekly 4 Feb. 2008: 34. General OneFile. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.

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Tripathi, Salil. "Frailty in Sarajevo." New Statesman [1996] 11 Aug. 2008: 50+. General OneFile. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.

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Flanders, Judith. "A dying fall." Spectator 31 May 2008: 42+. General OneFile. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.

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