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Daphne Kalotay

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Daphne Kalotay grew up in New Jersey, where her parents had relocated from Ontario; her mother is Canadian, while her father came from Hungary to Canada as a teen. Daphne attended Vassar College, majoring in psychology, before moving to Boston to attend Boston University's graduate program in fiction writing. She stayed on at BU to study with Saul Bellow as part of the University Professors program, where she earned a PhD in Modern and Contemporary literature, writing her dissertation on one of her favorite writers, Mavis Gallant. Her interview with Mavis Gallant can be found in the Paris Review's Writers-at-work series.

At Boston University, Daphne's stories won the school's Florence Engell Randall Fiction Prize and a Henfield Foundation Aw...more


Average rating: 3.70 · 2,660 ratings · 680 reviews · 3 distinct works
Russian Winter
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 2,598 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions
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Calamity and Other Stories
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Love in a Cold Climate (Nonfiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Feb 16, 2012 05:19pm
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Why I Love Dance (Nonfiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 07, 2012 09:31am
Description: from HistoricalTapestry.com
Do the Work! (Nonfiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Oct 20, 2011 07:26am
Description: Advice for Writers (http://thesavvyreader.ca/2011/advice-for-writers-from-author-daphne-kalotay/)
Guest Blog Post (Nonfiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Apr 24, 2011 06:34pm
Description: from Bookreporter.com blog (Saturday April 23, 2011)
Storytime! (Nonfiction)
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Description: Blog post from grubdaily.org
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A Tale of Two Cities
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From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry
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Wonderful tragicomic novel that treats a dark and serious subject with a deft, light touch. Though farcical in tone (and I often found myself laughing out loud), the book is a powerful commentary on Guantanamo and beyond. Gilvarry uses humor to shine...more
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Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber
Crossing the Tracks
by Barbara Stuber (Goodreads Author)
read in January, 2012
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Lovely coming-of-age novel. I don't usual read YA literature, so this was a first for me. Though the protagonist confronts much tragedy, she has a great sense of humor and a wonderful best friend. I especially liked the letters in the book--from the...more
Daphne said "yes" to attending the event: Reading and Q&A
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date: January 20, 2012 12:00PM
location: Concordia University Texas, 11400 Concordia University Drive, Austin, TX, The United States
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
read in December, 2011
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I love pretty much everything Barnes writes and enjoyed this novella for its meditations on history and truth, and for the way it captured a time and place with such a light touch.
"When people ask why I chose to write a novel about a ballerina, I give the simplest answer: I love d" …more
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"Lauren wrote: "I loved Russian Winter. Can't wait to read whatever novel you come out with next."

Thanks so much for reading, Lauren--I'm really glad y...more
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Daphne made a comment on Triumph After Rejection:
"And that was just ONE of many eventually abandoned stories. I think you have to learn to see them as early (and very different) drafts of later, bette...more "
Daphne made a comment on My story = my advice:
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"I’ve always loved reading and writing, but it wasn’t until my final semester of college that I reali" …more
More of Daphne's books…
“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”
Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter

“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”
Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.”
Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter

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Daphne Lauren wrote: "I loved Russian Winter. Can't wait to read whatever novel you come out with next."

Thanks so much for reading, Lauren--I'm really glad you enjoyed it. And am working hard on the next one...


Lauren I loved Russian Winter. Can't wait to read whatever novel you come out with next.


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