Giller Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 22 (2015) Winner
André Alexis
アンドレ・アレクシス
Andore Arekushisu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1957-01-15 （Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago）
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago → Ottawa, Canada → Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Librettist, Playwright
- Active Years
- 1994-2025
- Affiliations
- Canadian Stage Company, Tarragon Theatre, University of Toronto
- Influenced By
- Thomas Browne, Percival Everett
- Influenced
- Percival Everett (compared to)
- Nominations
- Giller Prize shortlist 1998 (Childhood), Governor General's Award nomination 2006 (Ingrid and the Wolf)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Scotiabank Giller Prize | Fifteen Dogs | フィクション | Scotiabank Giller Prize Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2015 | Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Fifteen Dogs | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Windham-Campbell Literature Prize | body of work | — | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University | 受賞 |
| 1998 | Trillium Award | Childhood | — | — | 受賞（共同） |
| 1998 | Books in Canada First Novel Award | Childhood | — | — | 受賞 |
Scotiabank Giller Prize
2015
Work:
Fifteen Dogs
Category:
フィクション
Organization:
Scotiabank Giller Prize Foundation
Result:
受賞
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
2015
Work:
Fifteen Dogs
Result:
受賞
Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
2017
Work:
body of work
Organization:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Result:
受賞
Trillium Award
1998
Work:
Childhood
Result:
受賞（共同）
Books in Canada First Novel Award
1998
Work:
Childhood
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (2017) Winner
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (formerly Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
1 appearances
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Edition 23 (2019) Winner
Works
Major Works
Fifteen Dogs
2015 Literary fictionGods Apollo and Hermes wager on whether dogs given human consciousness would be happier; 15 dogs in Toronto grapple with their new awareness.
ConsciousnessHappinessMythologyPhilosophy
Childhood
1998 Literary fictionDebut novel.
ChildhoodIdentity
Pastoral
2014 Literary fictionFirst in Quincunx Cycle.
PhilosophyLove
Bibliography
- Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994)
- Childhood (1998)
- Lambton Kent (1999)
- Ingrid and the Wolf (2005)
- Asylum (2008)
- Beauty and Sadness (2010)
- A (2013)
- Pastoral (2014)
- Fifteen Dogs (2015)
- The Hidden Keys (2016)
- Days by Moonlight (2019)
- The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction (2020)
- Ring (2021)
- Winter, or A Town Near Palgrave (2022)
- Other Worlds (2025)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Clear, supple prosePhilosophical inquiry
- Recurring Motifs
- Philosophical themesOntario landscapesMythical elements
Legacy
Prominent Canadian writer known for the Quincunx Cycle, recipient of numerous literary prizes including Giller and Windham-Campbell.
In Popular Culture
- Compared to 'the Canadian Percival Everett'
Quotes
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The important thing for me about the Quincunx is not that there is a narrative unity... It's a matter of patternings; psychological patterns, geometric ones – each novel is five chapters, the denouement comes in Chapter 4, Chapter 5 is a settling of accounts.
Source: Interview (Globe and Mail, 2022) (2022)
Trivia
- Quincunx Cycle inspired by Thomas Browne
- Called 'the Canadian Percival Everett'