Elisabeth Harvor
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Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor (née Deichman) (born 26 June 1936) is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had two sons before they divorced in 1977. Harvour enrolled at Concordia University in 1983, receiving an M.A. in creative writing in 1986.
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- Women and Children - 1973 (revised as Our Lady of All Distances, 1991)
- If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever - 1988
- Fortress of Chairs - 1992 (winner of the Gerald Lampert Award)
- Let Me Be the One - 1996 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring - 1997
- A Room at the Heart of Things - 1998
- Excessive Joy Injures the Heart - 2000
- All Times Have Been Modern - 2004
