H. Nigel Thomas talks with Pamela about identity, living vicariously through fictional characters, and the unchangeability of human nature.
When Nigel was 22 years old, he left St. Vincent and the Grenadines for Quebec where he studied African American Literature, earning degrees from Concordia, McGill and Université de Montréal. He became a high school teacher then a professor before publishing his first novel, Spirits in the Dark. Nigel is the editor of Kola Magazine, host of the Lectures Logos reading series, has twice been shortlisted for the Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction, won the 2013 Universite Laval Homage aux Createurs, the 2020 Martin Luther King Junior Achievement Award, the 2021 QWF Judy Mappin Community Award, and in 2022 the Canada Council for the Arts John Molson Prize.
Throughout his career, Nigel has written about and supported the Black and gay communities in his adopted country. Learn more in our delightful conversation.
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