Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor

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.

Bibliography

*"Women and Children" - 1973, 11 stories (revised as "Our Lady of All Distances", 1991)
*"If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever" - 1988, six stories and a novella
*"Fortress of Chairs" - 1992 poems (winner of the Gerald Lampert Award)
*"Let Me Be the One" - 1996, stories (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring" - 1997, poems
*"A Room at the Heart of Things" - 1998 (editor), fiction anthology
*"Excessive Joy Injures the Heart" - 2000, novel
*"All Times Have Been Modern" - 2004, novel

References

http://www.elisabeth-harvor.com/


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