Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and journalist
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Ken Harvey .
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker fromNewfoundland and Labrador .[ 1]
Harvey's debut short story collection,Directions for an Opened Body , was published in 1990.[ 2] Commonwealth Writers Prize . He followed up in 1992 with his first novel,Brud ,[ 3] SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1993.[ 4]
His 2003 novelThe Town That Forgot How to Breathe was his first book to be republished in the United States,[ 5] Thomas Head Raddall Award in 2004.[ 6] Inside won theRogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize [ 7] Winterset Award ,[ 8] Giller Prize .[ 9]
His 2008 novelBlackstrap Hawco was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2008.[ 10]
As a filmmaker Harvey is most noted for his 2018 documentary filmImmaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt [ 11] Christopher Pratt which was aCanadian Screen Award nominee forBest Feature Length Documentary at the7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019,[ 12] [ 13]
In 2000, with his wife Janet, Harvey founded theReLit Awards , an annual award for independent Canadian literature.[ 14] [ 15]
Directions for an Opened Body - 1990Brud - 1992Stalkers - 1994The Hole That Must Be Filled - 1995Nine-Tenths Unseen - 1996Kill The Poets: Anti-verse - 1998The Flesh So Close - 1998The Great Misogynist - 1998Everyone Hates a Beauty Queen - 1998The Woman in the Closet - 1998Skin Hound - 2000Little White Squaw: A White Woman's Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation - 2002, with Eve Mills NashThe Town That Forgot How to Breathe - 2003Shack: The Cutland Junction Stories - 2004Inside - 2006Blackstrap Hawco - 2008Reinventing the Rose - 2011I'm 14 and I Hate the World - 2011box It's a Girl Remains Geek Assassin - 2013It Was Sunny The Day I Killed Her - 2015The Immigrant's Handbook The Drinking Life - 2017I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night: Gerald Squires on Creation and Death - 2017Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt - 2019The Incredible Vanishing Sisters - 2022What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George - 2023The Governor of Georgetown - 2024The Bear Inside a Whale - 2025The Slattery Street Crockers (Writer/Director/Producer)B U C K Y (Writer/Director/Producer)Lore (Writer/Director/Producer)^ Bob Clark, "Harvey writes what he knows; Author laments erosion of Newfoundlanders' identity".Edmonton Journal ^ Stephen Henighan , "Heartland journey yields mixed result; Lively scenes, much hokum"Montreal Gazette ^ Tim Wynne-Jones , "The moral of the story".The Globe and Mail ^ "Finalists announced for first novel award".The Globe and Mail ^ "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey" .Publishers Weekly ^ "Kenneth J. Harvey wins Atlantic fiction prize".The Globe and Mail ^ James Adams, "Harvey wins $15,000 Writers' Trust fiction prize".The Globe and Mail ^ Tara Mullowney, "Novelist Ken Harvey wins Winterset".The Telegram ^ "15 writers vie for Giller Prize".Prince George Citizen ^ "Giller winners up again for award".Hamilton Spectator ^ "New documentary explores the order and disorder of N.L. painter Christopher Pratt" .CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, August 30, 2018.^ Pat Mullen,"2019 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary" .Point of View ^ "Newfoundland filmmaker’s Christopher Pratt documentary wins international award" .SaltWire Network , March 28, 2019.^ Bouw, Brenda (2000-11-08)."Canada's newest literary prize is for independent presses" .National Post . p. 28. Retrieved2023-10-14 . ^ Ryan Porter,"ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director" .Quill & Quire
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