Kent Stetson, (born July 5, 1948) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Stetson is best known for the plays ''Warm Wind in China'' (1988), one of the first and most prominent AIDS-themed plays produced in Canada; ''As I Am'' (1986), a noted

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-themed work; and the

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-winning ''The Harps of God'' (1997). His other plays include ''Queen of the Cadillac'' (1990), ''Just Plain Murder'' (1992), ''Sweet Magdalena'' (1994), ''The Eyes of the Gull'' (2000), ''New Arcadia'' (2001) and ''Horse High, Bull Strong, Pig Tight'' (2004). He has also published two novels, ''The World Above the Sky'' (2010) and ''Meat Cove'' (2013). ''The Harps of God'' received the 2001

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for English language drama, and the 2001 Canadian Authors Association's inaugural Carol Bolt Award. He won the

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for ''New Arcadia'', the Prince Edward Island Literary Award for outstanding contributions to the literature of Prince Edward Island, and the Wendell Boyle Award for contributions to PEI heritage. Stetson was appointed to the

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in July 2007.

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