André Alexis

Auteur de Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue

16 oeuvres 1,491 utilisateurs 87 critiques 4 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins

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Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue (2015) 872 exemplaires

Childhood (1998) 148 exemplaires

The Hidden Keys (2016) 121 exemplaires

Days by Moonlight (2019) 90 exemplaires

Pastoral (2014) 67 exemplaires

Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994) 59 exemplaires

Ingrid and the Wolf (2005) 34 exemplaires

Asylum (2008) 30 exemplaires

Ring (2021) 20 exemplaires

A (2013) 19 exemplaires

Beauty and Sadness (2010) 10 exemplaires

The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction (2020) 10 exemplaires

The Night Piece (1999) 5 exemplaires

The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers: 14 (2002) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires

Winter, or A Town Near Palgrave 1 exemplaire

Tanrilar Zar Attiginda 1 exemplaire

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Nom canonique: Alexis, André
Date de naissance: 1957-01-15
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Trinidad and Tobago (birth)
Canada (naturalized)
Lieu de naissance: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Lieux de résidence: Trinidad and Tobago
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Professions: writer
Organisations: This Magazine
Prix et distinctions: Windham Campbell Award (2017)
Courte biographie: 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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Fifteen Dogs par André Alexis

I'm not usually a big fan of stories told through the eyes of animals - they have a tepid Walt Disney perspectives which leaves me queasy with a saccharine taste. This book is the opposite: the human mind trapped in fifteen dogs' bodies, forced to acknowledge their animal nature is raw, powerful and oftentimes disturbing. Ranging from pure violence to soul searching poetry, this story is fast-paced, unapologetic with brute force and full of trickster philosophical moments. Rarely have I encountered so much punch in so few pages. Not for the faint of heart.… (plus d'informations)