Kai Thomas (writer)
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.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 in jail for killing a bounty hunter who was trying to capture fugitive slaves. It was also a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards and the 2024 Walter Scott Prize. Provided by Wikipedia
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