André Alexis
Autor von Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue
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André Alexis was born in Trinidad and raised in Canada, where he has lived since he was three years old. His works include Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, Childhood, and Fifteen Dogs, which won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and mehr anzeigen anthologies and he has also written extensively for radio and theater. Several of his plays have been produced in Vancouver and Toronto, and he has been a playwright-in-residence for the Canadian Stage Company. Alexis also writes reviews for The Globe and Mail, and he is a contributing editor to This Magazine, a bimonthly Canadian alternative journal. (Bowker Author Biography) Andre Alexis was born in Trinidad in 1957 & grew up in Canada. Alexis lives in Toronto. (Publisher Provided) weniger anzeigen
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The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers: 14 (2002) — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare
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- 1957-01-15
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- Trinidad and Tobago (birth)
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- Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Trinidad and Tobago
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Windham Campbell Award (2017)
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- Host and creator, CBC Radio’s Skylarking. Following his parents, who left Trinidad in the late 1950s, André Alexis and his younger sister immigrated to Canada in 1961. After a short stint in the southwestern Ontario town of Petrolia, Alexis and his family moved to Ottawa, where he subsequently spent most of his youth.
Alexis began his artistic career in the theater, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company (CanStage)
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