Elizabeth Wellburn is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 author. Her writing has been in the areas of fiction for children and educational technology.

In 1998, her book Echoes From the Square (ISBN 0-921156-99-5) was published. It tells a fictionalized story based on the real musician, Vedran Smailovic

Vedran Smailovic

Vedran Smailović , known as the "Cellist of Sarajevo", is a musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a former cellist in the Sarajevo String Quartet....

 adding the character of a young boy who learns to cope in the aftermath of war in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

. The paintings for the book were created by Deryk Houston

Deryk Houston

Deryk Houston, born January 7, 1954, is a Canadian artist and the subject of a documentary created by the National Film Board of Canada, titled "". In 1999, Houston had a life-altering journey to Baghdad. Unable to remain an outside observer of the crisis in Iraq, Deryk travelled to witness...

. Elizabeth, Deryk and their children live in Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

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