Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (2004) Winner
Kenneth J. Harvey
ケネス・ジェイ・ハーヴェイ
Kenneth J. Harvey
Aliases:
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1962-01-22 （Newfoundland and Labrador）
- Nationality
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Newfoundland and Labrador
Career
- Occupations
- writer, filmmaker
- Active Years
- 1990-2025
- Affiliations
- Founder of ReLit Awards
- Nominations
- Commonwealth Writers Prize nomination (Directions for an Opened Body, 1990), SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award shortlist (Brud, 1993), Giller Prize longlist (Inside, 2006), Giller Prize longlist (Blackstrap Hawco, 2008), Canadian Screen Award Best Feature Length Documentary nominee (Immaculate Memories, 2019)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Thomas Head Raddall Award | The Town That Forgot How to Breathe | — | Atlantic Book Awards | winner |
| 2006 | Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Inside | — | Writers' Trust of Canada | winner |
| 2006 | Winterset Award | Inside | — | — | winner |
| 2004 | Libro del Mare | The Town That Forgot How to Breathe | best book about the sea | — | winner |
| 2019 | Best Canadian Film at the International Festival of Films on Art | Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt | — | FIFAM | winner |
Thomas Head Raddall Award
2004
Work:
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
Organization:
Atlantic Book Awards
Result:
winner
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
2006
Work:
Inside
Organization:
Writers' Trust of Canada
Result:
winner
Winterset Award
2006
Work:
Inside
Result:
winner
Libro del Mare
2004
Work:
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
Category:
best book about the sea
Result:
winner
Best Canadian Film at the International Festival of Films on Art
2019
Work:
Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt
Organization:
FIFAM
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Winterset Award
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (2006) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
2003 novelA ghost story set in a Newfoundland town that has forgotten how to breathe.
loss of identitythe sea
Inside
2006 novelA novel about a man's internal journey while incarcerated.
isolationredemption
Blackstrap Hawco
2008 novelAn epic tale set in Newfoundland.
historyfamily
Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt
2018 documentary filmProfile of artist Christopher Pratt.
artNewfoundland
Bibliography
- Directions for an Opened Body
- Brud
- Stalkers
- The Hole That Must Be Filled
- Nine-Tenths Unseen
- Kill The Poets: Anti-verse
- The Flesh So Close
- The Great Misogynist
- Everyone Hates a Beauty Queen
- The Woman in the Closet
- Skin Hound
- Little White Squaw: A White Woman's Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation
- The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
- Shack: The Cutland Junction Stories
- Inside
- Blackstrap Hawco
- Reinventing the Rose
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- raw proseNewfoundland vernacular
- Recurring Motifs
- erosion of Newfoundland identitysea and isolation
Legacy
Canadian writer and filmmaker known for works set in Newfoundland, winner of multiple literary prizes. Co-founded the ReLit Awards with his wife to support independent Canadian literature.
Trivia
- Co-founded the ReLit Awards in 2000 with his wife Janet.
- In 2021, management of the ReLit Awards was taken over by his daughter Katherine Alexandra Harvey.