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In-branch use onlyKai Thomas
Kai Thomas is a Canadian writer from Ottawa, Ontario, whose debut novel ''In the Upper Country'' was the winner of the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.''In the Upper Country'' is a historical fiction about the Underground Railroad, centring on a journalist for an abolitionist newspaper in rural Ontario who is interviewing a woman jailed for killing a bounty hunter who was trying to capture fugitive slaves. It was also a finalist for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the 2023 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, and the 2024 Walter Scott Prize. It was named one of the 2024 Michigan Notable Books.
Thomas is a fiction writing mentor in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Provided by Wikipedia
