Kenneth J. Harvey

2015 Canadian Screen Awards nominee, Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born 22 January 1962) is an award-winning, international, bestselling novelist, filmmaker, and journalist. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy's Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His films have screened at over thirty film festivals around the world, including Raindance, Festival du nouveau cinéma, and Hong Kong International Film Festival, where his film "It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her" was nominated for a Golden Firebird Award. He grew up behind the camera and in the editing room with his father, Josiah, who trained at the National Film Board in Montreal. The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (2003), takes place in Bareneed, Newfoundland, where the residents have suddenly lost their ability to breathe automatically. Ladyhawke Ventures acquired the rights to produce a film based on the book.

Harvey's editorials have been published in most major Canadian newspapers, on CBC Radio and in The Times (London). He is the chief writer and producer of The Harvey Retaliation, a consumer revenge broadcast, and has been Writer-in-Residence at both the University of New Brunswick and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the founder of the ReLit Awards for poetry, short fiction and novels.

Harvey lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Harvey has sat on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa International Writers Festival.


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