André Alexis author biography, plus links to books by André Alexis.

André Alexis

André Alexis is the author of novels, short stories, and plays. His novel Fifteen Dogs won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada Reads, and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was short-listed for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He is also the author of Days by Moonlight, which won the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Hidden Keys; Pastoral; Asylum; and Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa. Alexis lives in Toronto.

This biography was last updated on 05/06/2025.

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