Kenneth Radu

Kenneth Radu
Born	1945 (age 79–80) Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	novelist, poet, short story writer
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

1. "Senneville author Radu wary of pretentious labels". The Gazette , February 9, 1989.
2. "Birdsell book wins in tie-breaker, takes first novel award for 1989". Vancouver Sun , March 30, 1990.
3. "Three writers win QSPELL prizes". The Gazette , November 4, 1989.
4. "Kenneth Radu wins MacLennan Prize; Look at suburban family life wins QSPELL's fiction award". The Gazette , November 16, 1991.
5. "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.
6. "New Canadian Library is where CanLit begins". The Gazette , April 1, 1995.