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.

Originally from Windsor, Ontario, he resided in Quebec as an adult, where he taught at John Abbott College in Montreal.

Kenneth Radu

He was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award 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.

Kenneth Radu

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 New Canadian Library edition of Yves Beauchemin's novel The Alley Cat.

Kenneth Radu

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

Living people

Canadian male short story writers

Canadian male novelists

20th-century Canadian poets

Canadian male poets

20th-century Canadian novelists

21st-century Canadian novelists

Writers from Windsor, Ontario

Writers from Montreal

21st-century Canadian memoirists

Anglophone Quebec people

Canadian people of Romanian descent

20th-century Canadian short story writers

21st-century Canadian short story writers

20th-century Canadian male writers

1945 births

21st-century Canadian male writers

Canadian male non-fiction writers