Ken Kalfus

Ken Kalfus ( born April 9, 1954 in New York City ) is an American writer.

Life

Ken Kalfus studied not finish at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, and at Trinity College ( Dublin). He worked as a journalist until he was able to publish his first volume of short stories Thirst in 1998, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Salon.com. Kalfus has since written four novels by 2014. Kalfus writes for The New York Times Book Review. The film Pu -239 basisiert on his short story.

Kalfus 2009 had a Guggenheim Fellowship. It was in 2000 on the nomination list for the PEN / Faulkner Award and 2006 for the National Book Award.

Kalfus lives with his wife and a daughter in Philadelphia.

Kalfus claims to write books in order to have an excuse to travel.

Works

• Equilateral: a novel. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
• A Disorder Peculiar to the Country. Novel. New York: Ecco, 2006
• The Commissariat of Enlightenment. Novel. New York: Ecco, 2003
• PU -239 and Other Russian Fantasies. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999
• Thirst. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1998