Valérie Harvey

Valérie Harvey (born 1979) is a Canadian writer and sociologist from Quebec, associate professor at the University of Quebec in Outaouais (School of Languages and Cultures) where she teaches a course on manga and Japanese society. Her main interest is Japan, where she lived for several years (in Kyoto), with six publications devoted to the country. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at Konan University (Kobe, Japan) in 2022-2023, focusing on the Japanese family.

She is sociologist on Ici Radio-Canada Première's , a program for which she is also a researcher. She teaches Japanese at Collège Saint-Charles-Garnier in Quebec City. She has also translated the poet Misuzu Kaneko into French, published by .

Biography Valérie Harvey was born in 1979, in La Malbaie, Charlevoix region of Quebec. She studied there until CEGEP, where she specialized in arts and literature. She continued in this vein at the Université de Sherbrooke, where she obtained her first bachelor's degree in Francophone literature, followed by a second bachelor's degree in communications and multimedia. At the same time, she studied several languages, which led her to Japanese.

In 2003, she started her travel blog "Nomadesse". In 2006, she left Quebec to spend a year in Kyoto, Japan. In 2010, Hamac-Carnets published her first book on Japan, the travel journal, (Passion Japon). She went on to write several novels set in a northern Japanese world for Québec Amérique. She returned to school in 2009 to complete a master's degree in sociology at Université Laval on Japanese women's desire to have children. Her doctorate in sociology focused on Quebec fathers and parental leave.

She was a sociologist with , as well as at the Humanistes table, on Radio-Canada's program.

As a singer and songwriter, she was a member of the duo Yume, which composed and performed songs in Japanese and French. - Let's Sing Japanese Songs of the NHK World 2020, Finalist, Literary Creation Prize from the City of Quebec and the Quebec International Book Fair pour L'Ombre du Shinobi 2018, Parallel Universes Literary Prize, for Les Fleurs du Nord 2018, Finalist, Prix Adolecteurs, for Les Fleurs du Nord

Selected works

Passion Manga, Du Japon au monde, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2026 Passion Japon - Sur les chemins de Kyoto, Somme toute, 2025 Révolution Papa, Comment les pères québécois transforment la masculinité, Québec Amérique, 2021 Série Hokkaidô, Québec Amérique, collection Magellan: Les Fleurs du Nord, 2016; 2nd edition, 2019 L'Ombre du Shinobi, 2019 L'Héritage du Kami, 2020 Nous sommes tous différents et nous sommes tous beaux, translation of the poetry by Misuzu Kaneko, Québec Amérique, 2019 Série Idole, Les éditions Nomadesse: Idole - Anna de Charlevoix, 2017 Idole 2 - Anna de nulle part, 2019 L'amour au cœur de la vie: 15 regards sur l'amour (under the direction of Valérie Harvey), Québec Amérique, 2017 Passion Islande, Hamac-carnets, 2016 La Pomme de Justine, Québec Amérique, 2013 Le pari impossible des Japonaises. Enquête sur le désir d'enfant au Japon, Septentrion, 2012 Les découvertes de Papille au Japon, Chenelière, 2012 Passion Japon: Voyage au cœur du Japon moderne, Hamac-carnets, 2010