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Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born 22 January 1962) is a Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and journalist.

Kenneth J. Harvey was born on 22 January 1962 in St. John's, Newfoundland. He began writing novels at the age of ten, and 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, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and in translation in Russia, Germany, China, Japan, 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 Dublin Literary Award, and twice for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.