The Night Piece
CBC Books | | Posted: February 5, 2020 3:11 PM | Last Updated: February 18, 2021
André Alexis
Drawing from published works such as the acclaimed debut Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa and the highly original Beauty & Sadness, and including never-before-published pieces, this is a career-spanning collection of surprising, witty, imaginative, original stories from André Alexis —one of Canada's most celebrated writers.
André Alexis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and raised in Ottawa. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award (now known as the Amazon.ca First Novel Award) and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include Pastoral, Asylum and The Hidden Keys.
Alexis's novel Fifteen Dogs, championed by Humble The Poet, won Canada Reads 2017 and the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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