UBC creative writing professor Steven Galloway has been long-listed for the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Galloway is nominated for his international bestselling novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, a story of three people in a city devastated by war and a cellist who plays for 22 days at the site of a mortar attack.
Nominations in the list are made by libraries from around the globe and are open to books written in any language. Eight libraries in Canada, Belgium, Finland, and England nominated Galloway’s novel.
The shortlist will be revealed on April 14, 2010, and the winner will be announced on June 17, 2010.
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