André Alexis
Writer
Photo: Jaime Hogge
André Alexis was born in Trinidad and raised in Ottawa. He is now based in Toronto.
His novel, Fifteen Dogs, is one of the most successful Canadian novels of the past decade. It won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Canada Reads Prize, and became a global bestseller. André has also won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award (for Childhood), a second Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for Days by Moonlight), and, for his body of work, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards – the Windham-Campbell Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth award, the Governor General’s Award, and the Toronto Book Award.
His other books include: The Hidden Keys, Pastoral (also nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), Night Piece, Asylum, A, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa and Lambton, Kent and Other Vistas.