ANDR ALEXISis an author of novels, short stories, and plays. His 2015 novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the Giller Prize, Canada Reads, and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted 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 longlisted for the Giller Prize, The Hidden Keys, Pastoral, Asylum, and Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa. Alexis lives in Toronto.
Praise for Childhood Andr Alexis is a genuine talent. -- Richard Bachmann, A Different Drummer Books Alexis [has an] astute understanding of the madly shimmering, beautifully weaving patterns created by what we have agreed to call memory. -- Ottawa Citizen Although Canada boasts many promising young writers, the most promising of all may be Andr Alexis. . . . -- London Free Press Alexis already knows what it takes many grey wise men a lifetime to realize: that neither memory nor history is a straight line. -- Edmonton Journal