Kenneth J Harvey

Kenneth J Harvey is the author of several novels including The Town That Forgot How To Breathe, Brud, Nine Tenths Unseen (praised by J. M. Coetzee as 'a harrowing journey into the dark underside of family life'), Blackstrap Hawco and Reinventing the Rose. His books are published in ten countries. He has won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award 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. He lives lives in St. John's and an outport on the Island of Newfoundland.