Kenneth Radu
| Kenneth Radu | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1945 (age 70–71) Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, short story writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1980s-2000s |
| Notable works | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance |
Kenneth Radu is a Canadian writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1988 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection The Cost of Living.[1]
Originally from Windsor, Ontario, he resided in Quebec as an adult, where he taught at John Abbott College in Montreal.[1]
He was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1989 for Distant Relations,[2] and has won the Hugh Maclennan Prize for Fiction in 1989 for Distant Relations[3] and in 1991 for A Private Performance.[4]
He has also served as co-editor of Matrix, a literary magazine devoted to English-language writing in Montreal.[5] He wrote the afterword for the New Canadian Library edition of Yves Beauchemin's novel The Alley Cat.[6]
Works
Novels
- Distant Relations (1989)
- Home Fires (1992)
- Strange and Familiar Places (1999)
- Flesh and Blood (2001)
- Purest of Human Pleasures (2004)
Short stories
- The Cost of Living (1987)
- A Private Performance (1990)
- Snow Over Judaea (1994)
- Sex in Russia (2010)
Poetry
- Letter to a Distant Father (1987)
- Treading Water (1992)
- Romanian Suite (1996)
Memoir
- The Devil Is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother (2004)
References
- 1 2 "Senneville author Radu wary of pretentious labels". The Gazette, February 9, 1989.
- ↑ "Birdsell book wins in tie-breaker, takes first novel award for 1989". Vancouver Sun, March 30, 1990.
- ↑ "Three writers win QSPELL prizes". The Gazette, November 4, 1989.
- ↑ "Kenneth Radu wins MacLennan Prize; Look at suburban family life wins QSPELL's fiction award". The Gazette, November 16, 1991.
- ↑ "Matrix, a Montreal-based magazine focusing on English writing in Quebec, is becoming an increasingly important document of what it means to be a non-francophone living in the province". The Globe and Mail, September 8, 1990.
- ↑ "New Canadian Library is where CanLit begins". The Gazette, April 1, 1995.