Kenneth J. Harvey

Who is Kenneth J. Harvey?

Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker, photographer, journalist and internationally bestselling author. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, his films have screened at over twenty film festivals around the world, and his 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.

Harvey's editorials have been published in most major Canadian newspapers, and he is the chief writer and producer of The Harvey Retaliation, a consumer revenge broadcast. He 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.