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Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway

Scottishb. December 2, 1956Literary Fiction

Scottish novelist and short-story writer whose debut The Trick Is to Keep Breathing is a landmark of Scottish women's fiction. Her formally experimental prose explores female experience and identity. She is one of the most important voices in contemporary Scottish literature.

Works

  • The Trick Is to Keep BreathingA woman's mental breakdown spirals through fragmented narrative and visual text experimentation→
  • Foreign PartsTwo middle-aged women embark on a road trip through France searching for meaning and freedom→
  • ClaraA biographical novel exploring pianist Clara Schumann's life, music, and marriage→
  • Collected StoriesShort stories exploring ordinary lives and small moments of connection and change→
  • This Is Not About MeA memoir tracing the author's life from childhood through artistic development and family trauma→

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