Kenneth J. Harvey | |
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 Harvey with an award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art | |
| Born | January 22, 1962 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | 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 |
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.[1]
Harvey's debut short story collection, Directions for an Opened Body, was published in 1990.[2] He followed up in 1992 with his first novel, Brud,[3] which was a shortlisted finalist for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1993.[4]
His 2003 novel The Town That Forgot How to Breathe was his first book to be republished in the United States,[5] and was the winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 2004.[6] In 2006, his novel Inside won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[7] and the Winterset Award,[8] and was longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize.[9]
His 2008 novel Blackstrap Hawco was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2008.[10]
As a filmmaker Harvey is most noted for his 2018 documentary film Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt,[11] a profile of artist Christopher Pratt which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019,[12] and won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art.[13]
In 2000, with his wife Janet, Harvey founded the ReLit Awards, an annual award for independent Canadian literature.[14] Management of the ReLits was taken over in 2021 by his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.[15]
