Daphne Kalotay

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Daphne Kalotay
CitizenshipUnited States and Canada
Alma materVassar College, Boston University
Notable worksCalamity and Other Stories, Russian Winter, Sight Reading
Notable awardsFlorence Engel Randall Fiction Prize, Transatlantic Review Award from The Henfield Foundation, 2011 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Prize

Daphne Kalotay is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is known for her novels, Russian Winter (Harper, 2010) and Sight Reading (Harper, 2013), and her collection of short stories, Calamity and Other Stories (Doubleday, 2005), which was short listed for the 2005 Story Prize. [1] She is a graduate of Vassar College [2] and holds an MA in creative writing and a PhD in literature from Boston University, where she has also taught. [3] In addition, she has taught at Middlebury College and been a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College and Lynchburg College. From 2014 to 2016 she was the Visiting Writer in English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a citizen of both the United States and Canada. [4] [5] She is currently a lecturer at Princeton University. [6]

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Biography

Kalotay was raised in Madison, New Jersey, and attended Vassar College. In 1993, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, to attend Boston University's Masters Program in Creative Writing and remained at Boston University to complete a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the now-defunct University Professors Program. Studying under her advisor Saul Bellow, she wrote a dissertation on the Canadian writer Mavis Gallant and graduated in 1998.

In 1999, she moved to Vermont for a term position at Middlebury College, where she taught for the English department. She returned to Massachusetts in 2002 and since then has lived in the Boston area. [7] From 2012 to 2014, she served as co-president of the Women's National Book Association's Boston chapter. In 2017, her short story "Relativity" was the One City/One Story Boston selection. [8]

Critical acclaim

Kalotay has received numerous awards for her fiction, including the 2011 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Prize for her novel Russian Winter [9] and the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award from The Henfield Foundation. [10]

Her novel Sight Reading won the 2014 New England Society Book Award [11] and was a finalist for the 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize. [12]

She has been awarded fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation, [13] and Yaddo. [10] Her short fiction collection, Calamity and Other Stories, was shortlisted for the 2005 Story Prize. [1] Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Rumpus, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, O Magazine, The Oregonian, Good Housekeeping, USA Today and dozens of other publications. [5]

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Poetry Translation

Interviews

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Story Prize: 2005 short list". Archived from the original on 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  2. ↑ Kalotay, Daphne (2006). Calamity and Other Stories, Author bio.
  3. ↑ Kalotay, Daphne (2010). Russian Winter, Jacket copy.
  4. ↑ "Athenæum Authors: Daphne Kalotay" . Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  5. 1 2 "Author's website". Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  6. ↑ "Creative Writing Faculty: Daphne Kalotay" . Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  7. ↑ "Athenæum Authors: Daphne Kalotay" . Retrieved 2013-09-14.
  8. ↑ "One City One Story". Archived from the original on 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  9. ↑ "Scribe: News You Can Use from the Writers' League of Texas". Writers' League of Texas. 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  10. 1 2 "Harper Collins: The Story Behind the Book: Russian Winter" (PDF). Harper Collins. Retrieved 2013-06-02.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ "2014 NES Book Awards Winners" . Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  12. ↑ "The 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  13. ↑ "Bogliasco Fellowships Recipients: 2012-2013 Academic Year" (PDF). The Bogliasco Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
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