Kai Thomas (writer)

Kai Thomas is a Canadian writer from Ottawa, Ontario,[1] whose debut novel In the Upper Country was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award[2] and the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[3]

The novel is a historical fiction about the Underground Railroad, centring on a journalist for an abolitionist newspaper in rural Ontario who is interviewing a woman who has been jailed for killing a bounty hunter who was trying to capture fugitive slaves.[4]

References
  1. Ryan B. Patrick, "6 Black Canadian writers to watch in 2023". CBC Books, February 2, 2023.
  2. Cassandra Drudi, "Billy-Ray Belcourt, Jessica Johns among 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel finalists". Quill & Quire, May 4, 2023.
  3. Cassandra Drudi, "Three debut novels among finalists for 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Quill & Quire, September 27, 2023.
  4. Brett Josef Grubisic, "Kai Thomas’ ‘In The Upper Country’: A tree-planting encounter inspires historical Black fiction". Toronto Star, January 6, 2023.


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