André Alexis

André Alexis
Born	January 15, 1957 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	novelist
Notable works	Childhood, Fifteen Dogs

André Alexis (born 15 January 1957 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

His debut novel, Childhood (1997), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was a co-winner of the Trillium Award. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards.

Alexis began his artistic career in the theatre, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company. His short play Lambton, Kent, first produced and performed in 1995, was released as a book in 1999. His first published work of fiction, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994), was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean region).

His first novel Childhood was published in 1998. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was co-winner of the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize.

Alexis published Ingrid and the Wolf, his first work of juvenile fiction, in 2005. The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2006 Governor General's Awards.

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