{{Short description|Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and journalist}} {{About|the Canadian writer|other people with similar names|Ken Harvey (disambiguation){{!}}Ken Harvey}} {{Infobox person | name = Kenneth J. Harvey | image = Kenneth J Harvey wins Best Canadian Work at Le Fifa 2019.jpg | caption = Harvey with an award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art | birth_name = | birth_date = January 22, 1962 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = writer, filmmaker | known_for = ''The Town That Forgot How to Breathe'', ''Blackstrap Hawco'', ''Inside'', ''Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt'' | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | 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.<ref>Bob Clark, "Harvey writes what he knows; Author laments erosion of Newfoundlanders' identity". ''Edmonton Journal'', October 31, 2008.</ref>
Harvey's debut short story collection, ''Directions for an Opened Body'', was published in 1990.<ref>Stephen Henighan, "Heartland journey yields mixed result; Lively scenes, much hokum" ''Montreal Gazette'', May 11, 1991.</ref>, and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He followed up in 1992 with his first novel, ''Brud'',<ref>Tim Wynne-Jones, "The moral of the story". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 12, 1992.</ref> which was a shortlisted finalist for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1993.<ref>"Finalists announced for first novel award". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 4, 1993.</ref>
His 2003 novel ''The Town That Forgot How to Breathe'' was his first book to be republished in the United States,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312342227 |date=August 8, 2005 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> and was the winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 2004.<ref>"Kenneth J. Harvey wins Atlantic fiction prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 26, 2004.</ref> 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<ref>James Adams, "Harvey wins $15,000 Writers' Trust fiction prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 8, 2007.</ref> and the Winterset Award,<ref>Tara Mullowney, "Novelist Ken Harvey wins Winterset". ''The Telegram'', March 30, 2007.</ref> and was longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize.<ref>"15 writers vie for Giller Prize". ''Prince George Citizen'', September 22, 2006.</ref>
His 2008 novel ''Blackstrap Hawco'' was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2008.<ref>"Giller winners up again for award". ''Hamilton Spectator'', September 20, 2008.</ref>
As a filmmaker Harvey is most noted for his 2018 documentary film ''Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt'',<ref name=cbc>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/christopher-pratt-absolutely-canadian-1.4803168 "New documentary explores the order and disorder of N.L. painter Christopher Pratt"]. CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, August 30, 2018.</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2019 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary – Point of View Magazine |url=http://povmagazine.com/blog/view/2019-canadian-screen-award-nominees-for-documentary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209234632/http://povmagazine.com/blog/view/2019-canadian-screen-award-nominees-for-documentary |archive-date=February 9, 2019 |access-date=April 30, 2026 |website=povmagazine.com |language=en}}</ref> and won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art.<ref>[https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/lifestyles/newfoundland-filmmakers-christopher-pratt-documentary-wins-international-award-295775/ "Newfoundland filmmaker’s Christopher Pratt documentary wins international award"]. SaltWire Network, March 28, 2019.</ref>
In 2000, with his wife Janet, Harvey founded the ReLit Awards, an annual award for independent Canadian literature.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bouw |first=Brenda |date=2000-11-08 |title=Canada's newest literary prize is for independent presses |pages=28 |work=National Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post-canadas-newest-literary-p/133454594/ |access-date=2023-10-14}}</ref> Management of the ReLits was taken over in 2021 by his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.<ref>Ryan Porter, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/relit-awards-launches-literary-journal-teen-mentorship-under-new-executive-director/ "ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director"]. ''Quill & Quire'', January 7, 2021.</ref>
==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
==TV== * ''The Slattery Street Crockers'' (Writer/Director/Producer) * ''B U C K Y'' (Writer/Director/Producer) * ''Lore'' (Writer/Director/Producer)
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== External links == * {{IMDb name|4420386}}
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