Ken Kalfus was born in New York and has lived in Paris, Dublin, Belgrade, and Moscow. He is the author of the short story collections Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, both of which were New York Times Notable Books. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and a winner of the Salon Book Award and the Pushcart Prize, he has written for Harper's, Bomb, the North American Review, and the Voice Literary Supplement. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Commissariat of Enlightenment (2003)
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006)
Equilateral (2013)
2 A.M. in Little America (2022)
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006)
Equilateral (2013)
2 A.M. in Little America (2022)
Collections
Ken Kalfus recommends
The New Adventures of Helen (2021)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
"One of the greatest writers in Russia today and a vital force in contemporary world literature."
Anthologies containing stories by Ken Kalfus
Awards
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