St. Lawrence University Writers Series presents Daphne Kalotay
Name:
St. Lawrence University Writers Series presents Daphne Kalotay
Date:
November 2, 2023
Time:
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM EDT
Website:
SLU Writers Series Event Page
Event Description:
St. Lawrence University Writers Series presents Daphne Kalotay
Daphne Kalotay’s debut novel, the international bestseller Russian Winter, won the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize and has been published in over twenty foreign editions. Her second novel, Sight Reading, a Boston Globe bestseller, won the 2014 New England Society Book Award in Fiction, and her most recent novel, Blue Hours, was a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read.” Her just-released fiction collection The Archivists won the 2021 Grace Paley Prize and includes “Relativity,” the 2017 One City One Story Boston selection. A dual American/Canadian citizen, Kalotay grew up in New Jersey and spent her summers in Ontario, earning degrees from Vassar College and Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, where she earned both a Master’s and PhD, and where her stories won the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award. Kalotay lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
For over 50 years the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University has welcomed all varieties of authors including Pulitzer Prize winners. The events are free and open to the public. For additional information, contact the English Department 315-229-5125 or go to www.stlawu.edu/offices/english/about-english/about-writers-series.
Daphne Kalotay’s debut novel, the international bestseller Russian Winter, won the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize and has been published in over twenty foreign editions. Her second novel, Sight Reading, a Boston Globe bestseller, won the 2014 New England Society Book Award in Fiction, and her most recent novel, Blue Hours, was a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read.” Her just-released fiction collection The Archivists won the 2021 Grace Paley Prize and includes “Relativity,” the 2017 One City One Story Boston selection. A dual American/Canadian citizen, Kalotay grew up in New Jersey and spent her summers in Ontario, earning degrees from Vassar College and Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, where she earned both a Master’s and PhD, and where her stories won the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award. Kalotay lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
For over 50 years the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University has welcomed all varieties of authors including Pulitzer Prize winners. The events are free and open to the public. For additional information, contact the English Department 315-229-5125 or go to www.stlawu.edu/offices/english/about-english/about-writers-series.
