KENNETH J. HARVEY
(Russian translation rights only)

International bestselling author Kenneth J. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, 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 Giller Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

His novels The Town That Forgot How to Breathe and Brud have been first published in Russia by Amphora Publishers. A new edition of The Town That Forgot How to Breathe will be coming out from Centrepolygraph Publishers in 2008. Centrepolygraph will also publish Harvey's first short stories collection, Directions for an Opened Body, and his novels Stalkers and Inside.

Praise for Kenneth J. Harvey's book

"A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances." - John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea

"A writer like no other." - Alistair MacLeod, author of No Great Mischief

"An extravagantly haunted imagination." - J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace

"Inside is classic Harvey. No one else can write like this." - Bill Gaston, author of Sointula

"Compassionate, endlessly inventive and daring...the work of a major writer, and one who single-handedly shifts our literary centre of gravity to the east." - Frank Moher, The National Post


"Inside is the kind of novel that brings temporary life back to such cliches as 'gripping' and 'page-turner'... Myrden will probably stand as one of the more vivid and full-blooded characters of all the Canadian novels being published this year." - Nathan Whitlock, The Toronto Star

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