H Nigel Thomas is a Vincentian-Canadian author, essayist, and poet. His novels Spirits in the Dark and No Safeguards were nominated for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and Des vies cassées, the French translation of Lives: Whole and Otherwise, was shortlisted for Le prix Carbet des lycéens. In 2021, he was awarded QWF’s Judy Mappin Community Award for providing guidance and support to scores of students and writers. His other accolades include the 2000 Professional of the Year Jackie Robinson Award, the 2013 Hommage aux créateurs from Université Laval, the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award from Black Theatre Workshop, and the 2022 Canada Council for the Arts John Molson Prize. He is also the founder and English-language coordinator of Lectures Logos Readings, a bilingual reading series in Montreal. A Vincentian-Canadian, Nigel has lived in Quebec since 1968 and is a retired professor of United States literature.
H. Nigel Thomas
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