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Fifteen Dogs is a novel by Canadian writer André Alexis. Published by Coach House Books in 2015, the novel was the winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
An apologue, the novel tells the story of a group of 15 dogs, kennelled at a veterinary clinic in Toronto, who are suddenly gifted by the gods with human consciousness and language.
Over drinks at Toronto's Wheat Sheaf Tavern, Hermes and Apollo get into a debate about whether animals could live happily if they had the same cognitive and speech abilities as humans. They decide to wager a year of servitude on the outcome of granting the gifts of human reasoning and language to a group of dogs in a nearby clinic.
Given their newfound abilities, the dogs are able to escape the clinic and make their way to the city's High Park, where they set up their own new protosociety. The novel then explores the functioning of their new society through the impact of human values, such as individuality and personal freedom, on the conventionally hierarchical social order of dog packs. Key characters in the canine society include Atticus, a Neapolitan Mastiff who naturally emerges as the group leader; Majnoun, a black poodle who is reluctant to trust other dogs; Frick and Frack, a pair of Labrador retrievers who are leery about their new reality; and Prince, a mutt who embraces his language skills to become a poet.
André Alexis (born 15 January 1957 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
His debut novel, Childhood (1997), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was a co-winner of the Trillium Award. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards.
Alexis began his artistic career in the theatre, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company. His short play Lambton, Kent, first produced and performed in 1995, was released as a book in 1999. His first published work of fiction, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994), was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean region).
His first novel Childhood was published in 1998. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was co-winner of the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize.
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André Alexis, author of the Giller Prize-winning "Fifteen Dogs," says that being a writer has ruined him for any other life. Alexis sits down with Mojo Anderson to discuss his life, his fascination with the divine, and how his writing has changed him over his long career. Alexis arrived at The Banff Centre in December for a three-week residency in the Leighton Artists' Colony to work on his next novel, part of a new partnership between The Banff Centre and the Giller Prize. Follow the Banff Centre: Website: https://banffcentre.ca Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBanffCentre Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebanffcentre iTunes: http://apple.co/1A2DMmx SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/banff-centre-radio
2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize winner André Alexis talks about his novel Fifteen Dogs, a beautifully written allegory for our times -- one in which man’s best friend shows us the benefits of higher consciousness. "How do we deal with love? How do we deal with power? How do we deal with the divine? Those are the questions that I sort of transposed into a different medium, the dog consciousness, so that we could see our own selves from a slightly weird vantage." -Andre Alexis
Over Mind EP (Free download available on November 15) Andrés Alexis soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/andresalexismusic The Bass Is Noisy. 2013
bueno aqui una de mis canciones con bases de una historia real que escuche en una antigua juntacion XD espero les guste ;)
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Learn more about André Alexis' Fifteen Dogs, winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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With Juliette Binoche and Alexis Loret. From André Téchiné, 1998
André Alexis, author of the Giller Prize-winning "Fifteen Dogs," says that being a writer has ruined him for any other life. Alexis sits down with Mojo Anderson to discuss his life, his fascination with the divine, and how his writing has changed him over his long career. Alexis arrived at The Banff Centre in December for a three-week residency in the Leighton Artists' Colony to work on his next novel, part of a new partnership between The Banff Centre and the Giller Prize. Follow the Banff Centre: Website: https://banffcentre.ca Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBanffCentre Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebanffcentre iTunes: http://apple.co/1A2DMmx SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/banff-centre-radio
4 visionary artists. 1 urgent conversation about art and social justice, featuring André Alexis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Deepa Mehta, and Rebecca Belmore. »Subscribe to CBC Arts to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsSubscribe Creative Minds is a new series of events that bring together visionary artists to discuss their work and the urgent social, political and cultural issues of our time. Tonight at Toronto's Massey Hall, the series will launch with author André Alexis, musician/artist Buffy Sainte-Marie, artist Rebecca Belmore and filmmaker Deepa Mehta. Produced in partnership by CBC Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Massey Hall and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Find us at http://bit.ly/CBCArtsWeb CBC Arts on Facebook: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsFacebook CBC Arts on Twitter: http://bi...
The 2016 Words Festival is pleased to present Giller Prize-winning author André Alexis as part of our Opening Reception. André Alexis is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and short story writer whose debut novel Childhood (1997), a story of one man's attempt to find balance between a thirst for knowledge and the power of love, won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a co-winner of the Trillium Award (shared with Alice Munro). He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and immigrated to Canada with his sister in 1961. Alexis’ most recent novel Fifteen Dogs won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. Alexis began his career as a playwright-in-residence for the Canadian Stage Compa...
Words Festival presents a reading and conversation with Giller Prize-winning author André Alexis and Trillium Prize-winning author Kevin Hardcastle, hosted by Public Humanities at Western's Joel Burton. André Alexis is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and short story writer whose debut novel Childhood (1997), a story of one man's attempt to find balance between a thirst for knowledge and the power of love, won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a co-winner of the Trillium Award (shared with Alice Munro). He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and immigrated to Canada with his sister in 1961. Alexis’ most recent novel Fifteen Dogs won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. ...
Writing and Publishing Fiction: A Conversation André Alexis Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies, University College, 2016-17 Author, Fifteen Dogs, Childhood, Ingrid and the Wolf Winner, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Rogers Writer’s Trust Fiction, Canada First Novel Award Anne Michaels Poet Laureate, Toronto Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies, University College, 2014-15 Author, Fugitive Pieces, Correspondences Winner, Orange Prize for Fiction, Guardian Fiction Award, Lannan Award for Fiction Miriam Toews Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies, University College, 2015-16 Author, All My Puny Sorrows, A Complicated Kindness Winner, Governor General’s Award for Fiction, Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award