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Daphne Kalotay

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About this author

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: 3.72 · 4,050 ratings · 847 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Russian Winter
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 3,972 ratings — published 2010 — 28 editions
Calamity and Other Stories
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
Sight Reading
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 4 editions

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Reading & book-signing
Author appearance, May 23, 2013 07:00PM — 2 people invited
Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, MA, US

http://www.odysseybks.com
Daphne Kalotay reads from her new novel SIGHT READING

Reading from SIGHT READING
Author appearance, May 28, 2013 07:00PM
Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, US

Daphne Kalotay reads from her new novel, Sight Reading

reading & book-signing
Author appearance, May 29, 2013 07:00PM
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre, US

http://www.newtonvillebooks.com
Daphne Kalotay reads from her new novel SIGHT READING

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Love in a Cold Climate (Nonfiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Feb 16, 2012 05:19pm
Description: blog post
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)
1 chapters   —   updated Apr 23, 2011 11:14am
Description: Blog post from grubdaily.org
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Daphne said "yes" to attending the event: Book launch
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date: June 05, 2013 07:00PM
location: Posman Books--Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue, New York, NY, The United States
description: Reading and book-signing for Daphne's new novel, SIGHT READING
Daphne made a comment on her review of Prater Violet
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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Le Carré continues to inspire me. Even his most complex plots--and this book is particularly complex--are woven with attention to character. In some ways this novel is exhausting, but that's as it should be, for the author has taken on particularly d...more
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From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry
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
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
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
read in December, 2011
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
Daphne made a comment on her profile
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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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“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”
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

“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”
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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