Kenneth J. Harvey
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. Harvey's debut short story collection, Directions for an Opened Body, was published in 1990, and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He followed up in 1992 with his first novel, Brud, which was a shortlisted finalist for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1993.
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- Name
- Kenneth J.
- Born
- January 22, 1962
- Occupation
- writer, filmmaker
- Known for
- The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, Blackstrap Hawco, Inside, Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt
- Awards
- Thomas Head Raddall Award, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Winterset Award
- Nationality
- Canada
- Honours
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize · Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
- Languages
- English
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His 2003 novel The Town That Forgot How to Breathe was his first book to be republished in the United States, and was the winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 2004. The novel also won Italy's Libro del Mare for best book about the sea. In 2006, his novel Inside won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Winterset Award, and was nominated for the 2006 Giller Prize. His 2008 novel Blackstrap Hawco was nominated for the Giller Prize in 2008. In 2000, with his former wife Janet, Harvey founded the ReLit Awards, an annual award for independent Canadian literature. Management of the ReLits was taken over in 2021 by his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.
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• Name — Kenneth J. Harvey • Born — January 22, 1962 • Occupation — writer, filmmaker • Known for — The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, Blackstrap Hawco, Inside, Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt • Awards — Thomas Head Raddall Award, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Winterset Award
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• The Slattery Street Crockers (Writer/Director/Producer) • B U C K Y (Writer/Director/Producer) • Lore (Writer/Director/Producer)
Books
• Directions for an Opened Body - 1990 • Brud - 1992 • Stalkers - 1994 • The Hole That Must Be Filled - 1995 • Nine-Tenths Unseen - 1996 • Kill The Poets: Anti-verse - 1998 • The Flesh So Close - 1998 • The Great Misogynist - 1998 • Everyone Hates a Beauty Queen - 1998 • The Woman in the Closet - 1998 • Skin Hound - 2000 • Little White Squaw: A White Woman's Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation - 2002, with Eve Mills Nash • The Town That Forgot How to Breathe - 2003 • Shack: The Cutland Junction Stories - 2004 • Inside - 2006 • Blackstrap Hawco - 2008 • Reinventing the Rose - 2011
Films
• I'm 14 and I Hate the World - 2011 • box • It's a Girl • Remains • Geek Assassin - 2013 • It Was Sunny The Day I Killed Her - 2015 • The Immigrant's Handbook • The Drinking Life - 2017 • I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night: Gerald Squires on Creation and Death - 2017 • Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt - 2018 • It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt - 2019 • The Incredible Vanishing Sisters - 2022 • What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George - 2023 • The Governor of Georgetown - 2024 • The Bear Inside a Whale - 2025
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- 1.Bob Clark, "Harvey writes what he knows; Author laments erosion of Newfoundlanders' identity". Edmonton Journal, October 31, 2008.
- 2.Stephen Henighan, "Heartland journey yields mixed result; Lively scenes, much hokum" Montreal Gazette, May 11, 1991.
- 3.Tim Wynne-Jones, "The moral of the story". The Globe and Mail, September 12, 1992.
- 4."Finalists announced for first novel award". The Globe and Mail, March 4, 1993.
- 5.The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey. Publishers Weekly. August 8, 2005.
- 6."Kenneth J. Harvey wins Atlantic fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2004.
- 7.James Adams, "Harvey wins $15,000 Writers' Trust fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, March 8, 2007.
- 8.Tara Mullowney, "Novelist Ken Harvey wins Winterset". The Telegram, March 30, 2007.
- 9."15 writers vie for Giller Prize". Prince George Citizen, September 22, 2006.
- 10."Giller winners up again for award". Hamilton Spectator, September 20, 2008.
- 11."New documentary explores the order and disorder of N.L. painter Christopher Pratt". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, August 30, 2018.
- 12.2019 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary – Point of View Magazine. povmagazine.com.
- 13."Newfoundland filmmaker’s Christopher Pratt documentary wins international award". SaltWire Network, March 28, 2019.
- 14.Bouw, Brenda. Canada's newest literary prize is for independent presses. National Post. 28. 2000-11-08.
- 15.Ryan Porter, "ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director". Quill & Quire, January 7, 2021.
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