Writing the Queer Caribbean / Canada / Beyond – A Conversation with H. Nigel Thomas

Abstract

H. Nigel Thomas is the writer of twelve books and a retired professor of American literature at Laval University. Born and raised in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, he moved to Montréal in 1968. Nigel’s illustrious career includes short stories, poems and articles that have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies. 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. In this interview, Linzey Corridon explores queerness in the Caribbean Canadian diaspora, intergenerational queer subjectivities, multiculturalism, audience reception, publishing, and circulation in the Caribbean.