André Alexis
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André Alexis is a Canadian writer who was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, grew up in Ottawa, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.[1] He has received numerous awards including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Trillium Award.
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Born | January 15, 1957[1] Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
Occupation | novelist, librettist, writer |
Nationality | Canadian |
Genre | Literary fiction |
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Alexis is best known for his Quincunx Cycle, a series of five novels set in and around Southern Ontario. His second book in that cycle, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Giller Prize and brought both Alexis and his work to greater prominence. He has been compared to contemporary American novelist Percival Everett, with one scholar describing Alexis provisionally as "the Canadian Percival Everett."[2]