Kenneth Radu is a

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writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the

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for his short story collection ''The Cost of Living''."Senneville author Radu wary of pretentious labels". '' The Gazette'', February 9, 1989. Originally from Windsor,

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, he resided in

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as an adult, where he taught at

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. He was a shortlisted nominee for the

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in 1989 for ''Distant Relations'', and has won the Hugh Maclennan Prize for Fiction in 1989 for ''Distant Relations'' and in 1991 for ''A Private Performance''. He has also served as co-editor of ''Matrix'', a literary magazine devoted to English-language writing in Montreal. He wrote the afterword for the

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edition of Yves Beauchemin's novel '' The Alley Cat''."New Canadian Library is where CanLit begins". '' The Gazette'', April 1, 1995.

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

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