Kenneth Radu

Canadian writer (born 1945)

Kenneth Radu
Born	1945 (age 78–79) 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)
net worth (2018)

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

^ ^a ^b "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.