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Name
  
Kenneth Harvey


Role
  
Filmmaker

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Movies
  
Geek Assassin, It Was Sunny The Day I Killed Her, It's A Girl

Shows
  
The Slattery Street Crockers

Nominations
  
Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

People also search for
  
Emma Harvey, Roger Maunder, DelaVega

Books
  
The town that forgot how to br, Blackstrap Hawco, Reinventing the Rose, Brud, The flesh so close

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2015 Canadian Screen Awards nominee, Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born 22 January 1962) is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, photographer and international bestselling author. His films have screened at over thirty film festivals around the world, including Raindance, Festival du nouveau cinema, 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. 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.

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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 held the prestigious posts of 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 and an outport on the Island of Newfoundland.

One of his latest books, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (2003), takes place in Bareneed, Newfoundland and Labrador, 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 has sat on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa International Writers Festival.

Harvey also keeps personal blog as well as a Wal-Mart criticism blog where he posts emailed testimonies by Wal-Mart employees of unethical treatment and conduct at their workplace.

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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) (winner of the 2004 Thomas Head Raddall Award and Italy's Libro del Mare)
  • Shack: The Cutland Junction Stories (2004)
  • Inside (2006) (longlisted for the Giller Prize), (winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize), (winner of the Winterset Award)
  • Blackstrap Hawco (2008) (longlisted for the Giller Prize), (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize)
  • Reinventing the Rose (2011)
  • Films

  • I'm 14 and I Hate the World
  • box
  • It's a Girl
  • Remains
  • Geek Assassin
  • It Was Sunny The Day I Killed Her
  • The Immigrant's Handbook
  • TV

  • The Slattery Street Crockers (Writer/Director/Producer)
  • B U C K Y (Writer/Director/Producer)
  • Lore (Writer/Director/Producer)
  • References

    Kenneth J. Harvey Wikipedia