Canada · 19 d ago
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Author Steven Galloway tells his defamation trial his book sales collapsed after allegations
Background
The former chair of the University of British Columbia's creative-writing program is suing a former student, known as A.B. under a publication ban, and three other women who repeated her sexual-assault allegation.
The Cellist of Sarajevo
132,256 copies
The Confabulist
8,390 copies
On Oct 9 in British Columbia Supreme Court, a defence lawyer argued his 2014 novel The Confabulist was a flop, selling 8,390 copies in Canada against 132,256 for The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Cellist was a zeitgeist book, and this was just a book.
— Steven Galloway
What we know
- Never charged with a crime
- Fired by UBC in 2016 for breach of trust
Not yet
- The outcome of his defamation suit
A retired judge hired by UBC found it could not be established that he committed sexual assault. He was never charged, but was fired in 2016 for breach of trust.
A.B. will not testify. Her lawyer said her defence no longer asserts that she was assaulted, but that she reported the alleged assaults.
