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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 to earn 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 Award. Her first book, the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories, was short-list ...more

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	Russian Winter 3.75 avg rating — 10,469 ratings — published 2010 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“...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.”
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“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”
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“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”
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Dec 22, 2011 03:56PM

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...

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Dec 21, 2011 06:35PM

I loved Russian Winter. Can't wait to read whatever novel you come out with next.

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