In 2014 Alexis published Pastoral, the first in a planned series of five novels on philosophical themes. His novel Asylum was published in 2008, and is set in Ottawa during the government of Brian Mulroney. He had worked with Rolfe on Orpheus and Eurydice (2004) and Fire (1999). Alexis published Ingrid and the Wolf, his first work of juvenile fiction, in 2005.Īlexis wrote the libretto for James Rolfe's opera Aeneas and Dido, which premiered at Toronto Masque Theatre in 2007. His first novel Childhood was published in 1998. His short play Lambton, Kent, first produced and performed in 1995, was released as a book in 1999. His second novel from the cycle, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Giller Prize and brought both Alexis and the cycle into greater prominence.Īlexis began his artistic career in the theatre, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company. He has received numerous prizes including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.Īlexis is most well known for his Quincunx Cycle, a series of five novels, each examining a particular theme, set in and around Southern Ontario. André Alexis (born 15 January 1957 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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