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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. 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.
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. In 2006, his novel Inside won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Winterset Award, and was longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize.
His 2008 novel Blackstrap Hawco was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2008.
As a filmmaker Harvey is most noted for his 2018 documentary film Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt, 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, and won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art.
In 2000, with his 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.
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
TV
The Slattery Street Crockers (Writer/Director/Producer)
B U C K Y (Writer/Director/Producer)
Lore (Writer/Director/Producer)
References
External links
Kenneth J. Harvey at IMDb
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