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.
[edit] Bibliography
- 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
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Elisabeth Harvor elisabeth.harvor@sympatico.ca
Elisabeth Harvor’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, PRISM International, Best Canadian Stories, The Best American Short Stories, Our Generation Against Nuclear War, as well as in anthologies in Europe, the UK, and Mexico. Her first poetry book, Fortress of Chairs, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian writer in 1992. Her first novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Toronto Star in 2000, her most recent novel is All Times Have Been Modern, and her most recent story collection, Let Me Be the One, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.
