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 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , and twice for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize . He has produced and directed films and TV shows for the CBC ( Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ) , NTV and the Documentary Channel . His films have screened at over fifty film festivals around the world , including Raindance , Festival du nouveau cinéma , and Hong Kong International Film Festival , where his film " It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her " was nominated for a Golden Firebird Award . His film " I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night Gerald Squires on Creation and Death " won the Audience Choice Award at the 2017 Nickel Independent Film Festival , and the Best Canadian Feature Film Award at RIFFA 2017 - Regina International Film Festival . '' The Town That Forgot How to Breathe '' ( 2003 ) , takes place in Bareneed , Newfoundland , 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 '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 been 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
Festival du nouveau cinéma
Festival du nouveau cinéma
Kenneth J. Harvey