Kevin Jared Hosein

Kevin Jared Hosein is a Trinidadian novelist born in 1993. He was educated at the University of the West Indies and has worked as a science teacher. His debut novel The Beast of Kukuyo (2015) was published in Trinidad, followed by Littletown Secrets (2017). He is the author of the short story collections The Repenters (2016) and Wild Dogs (2019). Hungry Ghosts (2023), set in 1940s Trinidad in a society rigidly stratified by race and class, follows a family of sugar estate workers and their landlord through murder, desire, and colonial violence. It won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2024 and received widespread international acclaim, drawing comparisons to Patrick White and Gabriel García Márquez. The novel is remarkable for its atmospheric intensity and its exploration of how colonialism shapes individual psychology. Hosein was one of the youngest writers to win the Walter Scott Prize. Hungry Ghosts is published by Bloomsbury in the UK and has been widely translated.