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Misfortune

André Alexis

‘How many children had accidentally – or purposely, for that matter – shot a parent? Too many to count, no doubt.’

Fiction by André Alexis.

André Alexis

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His novel Days by Moonlight won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Fifteen Dogs won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, CBC Canada Reads and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include Asylum, Pastoral, The Hidden Keys, and The Night Piece: Collected Stories. He is the recipient of a Windham Campbell Prize. His most recent novel is Ring

Photograph © Jaime Hogge

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