![]() His other books include Pastoral (nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize), Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa and Lambton, Kent and Other Vistas: A Play. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. ![]() Fifteen Dogs begins at a bar in Toronto, where Greek gods Apollo and Hermes decide to grant human intelligence to fifteen dogs for a wager they construct. ![]() André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. André Alexis, in his novel Fifteen Dogs, explores the importance of language, human intelligence, and the flaws that language may entail. ![]()
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