Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.[1]
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 |
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]
Books
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- The Slattery Street Crockers (Writer/Director/Producer)
- B U C K Y (Writer/Director/Producer)
- Lore (Writer/Director/Producer)
References
edit- ^ Bob Clark, "Harvey writes what he knows; Author laments erosion of Newfoundlanders' identity". Edmonton Journal, October 31, 2008.
- ^ Stephen Henighan, "Heartland journey yields mixed result; Lively scenes, much hokum". Montreal Gazette, May 11, 1991.
- ^ Tim Wynne-Jones, "The moral of the story". The Globe and Mail, September 12, 1992.
- ^ "Finalists announced for first novel award". The Globe and Mail, March 4, 1993.
- ^ "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey". Publishers Weekly. August 8, 2005.
- ^ "Kenneth J. Harvey wins Atlantic fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2004.
- ^ James Adams, "Harvey wins $15,000 Writers' Trust fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, March 8, 2007.
- ^ Tara Mullowney, "Novelist Ken Harvey wins Winterset". The Telegram, March 30, 2007.
- ^ "15 writers vie for Giller Prize". Prince George Citizen, September 22, 2006.
- ^ "Giller winners up again for award". Hamilton Spectator, September 20, 2008.
- ^ "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, February 7, 2019.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
- ^ Ryan Porter, "ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director". Quill & Quire, January 7, 2021.