{"id":64524,"date":"2015-11-11T03:17:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=64524"},"modified":"2015-11-11T03:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:17:39","slug":"andre-alexis-wins-100000-scotiabank-giller-prize-for-fifteen-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/11\/andre-alexis-wins-100000-scotiabank-giller-prize-for-fifteen-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Alexis wins $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for ‘Fifteen Dogs’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO\u2014Andre Alexis of Toronto has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel \u201cFifteen Dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book\u2014about 15 dogs gifted by gods with human traits\u2014was praised by jury members as an \u201cinsightful and philosophical meditation on the nature of consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his acceptance speech, Alexis thanked his family members and said it was \u201cmost unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trinidad native, who was raised in Ottawa, beat out titles by Montreal\u2019s Heather O\u2019Neill, Vancouver-based Anakana Schofield, Montreal\u2019s Samuel Archibald, and London-based Rachel Cusk.<\/p>\n

The Giller Prize was established in 1994 by businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s jury, which was expanded to five members from the usual three, read 168 books submitted by 63 publishers.<\/p>\n

The jury included Irish author John Boyne, Canadian writers Cecil Foster, Alexander MacLeod and Alison Pick, and British author Helen Oyeyemi.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s winner was Montreal’s Sean Michaels for \u201cUs Conductors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comedian Rick Mercer hosted this year’s televised gala on CBC-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TORONTO\u2014Andre Alexis of Toronto has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel \u201cFifteen Dogs.\u201d The book\u2014about 15 dogs …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":64525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-64524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-original","mauthors-victoria-ahearn","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}