March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
Search Results by tag: André Alexis
Toronto author André Alexis has been named a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. The $165,000 (U.S.) international literary award, administered by Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, recognizes authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry ... Read More »
CBC Books has revealed the finalists for this year's instalment of Canada Reads, an annual competition during which five public personalities each defend a Canadian book from the previous year, with the aim to prove ... Read More »
January 31, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
Toronto's Coach House Books is promoting the publication of The Hidden Keys, the followup to André Alexis's Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning Fifteen Dogs, with a scavenger hunt. Beginning Aug. 15, one advance reading copy of the title will be ... Read More »
August 15, 2016 | Filed under: Events
Three Toronto authors have been nominated for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning authors André Alexis and Austin Clarke, along with poet and novelist Olive Senior, are among nine Caribbean authors ... Read More »
March 8, 2016 | Filed under: Awards
André Alexis, Louise Penny, and Raziel Reid are the three lone Canadians on Amazon.ca's lists of 2015 bestselling titles. Amazon.ca's overall top-selling books list was led by Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train, and ... Read More »
December 9, 2015 | Filed under: Bestsellers, Book news
On Nov. 10, authors, celebrities, socialites, and members of the Canadian publishing community gathered at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize gala. This year’s winner was André Alexis, for his ... Read More »
November 16, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
If the old saw is true that every dog has its day, it took storied Toronto small press Coach House Books 22 years to see one of its authors ascend the podium to claim the ... Read More »
November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
André Alexis has won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs. The award was presented at an event held last night at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio. Published by Coach House ... Read More »
November 4, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
At an announcement this morning in Toronto, four of the five jury members for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize unveiled what must by any measure qualify as one of the strongest shortlists in the 22-year ... Read More »
October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Indie presses dominate this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist, with Biblioasis taking two of the five nominations for Anakana Schofield’s novel Martin John and Samuel Archibald's story collection Arvida (trans. Donald Winkler). Coach House Books ... Read More »
October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Awards