H[ubert] Nigel Thomas grew up in St Vincent and the Grenadines but
moved to Montreal in 1968. He is the author of 11 books and dozens of
essays. His novels Spirits in the Dark and No Safeguards were shortlisted for the Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize.
Des vies Cassées (the translation of Lives: Whole and Otherwise) was
shortlisted for le Prix Carbet des Lycéens. He holds the 2000 Professional
of the Year Jackie Robinson Award, the 2013 Université Laval’s
Hommage aux créateurs, and the 2020 Black Theatre Workshop’s
Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. The Canadian High
Commission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States deems him
to be one of Canada’s outstanding immigrants from St Vincent and the
Grenadines. His books Behind the Face of Winter and Lives: Whole and Otherwise have been translated into French.
