{"id":91999,"date":"2017-03-01T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T02:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91999"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T02:28:11","slug":"canadian-author-andre-alexis-gets-165k-as-windham-campbell-prize-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/01\/canadian-author-andre-alexis-gets-165k-as-windham-campbell-prize-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian author Andre Alexis gets $165K as Windham Campbell Prize recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87407\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/fifteen-dogs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87407\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/fifteen-dogs.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian author Andre Alexis has been named one of eight recipients of Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize, which comes with a cheque for US$165,000.  (Photo: Literary Press Group of Canada\/Facebook)\" width=\"416\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/fifteen-dogs.jpg 416w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/fifteen-dogs-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian author Andre Alexis has been named one of eight recipients of Yale University&#8217;s Windham-Campbell Prize, which comes with a cheque for US$165,000. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lpgcanada\/photos\/a.150388228338215.26408.136354873074884\/1315458995164460\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Literary Press Group of Canada\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn.\u2014Canadian author Andre Alexis has been named one of eight recipients of Yale University&#8217;s Windham-Campbell Prize, which comes with a cheque for US$165,000.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as one of the world&#8217;s richest literature prizes, it is awarded to poets and writers of fiction, non-fiction and drama to support their literary pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers&#8217; Trust Fiction Prize in 2015 for \u201cFifteen Dogs,\u201da story about 15 pooches gifted by gods with the skills of human consciousness and language.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinidad native, who was raised in Ottawa, was hailed by the Windham-Campbell Prize judges for his \u201cmastery of literature&#8217;s history and a startling power of invention, balancing intellectual sophistication with a sense of humour, pathos, and beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s other winners were Carolyn Forche, Ike Holter and Maya Jasanoff of the United States; Erna Brodber of Jamaica; Marina Carr of Ireland; Ashleigh Young of New Zealand; and Australian aboriginal writer Ali Cobby Eckermann.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian drama writer Hannah Moscovitch was a recipient of the prize last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn.\u2014Canadian author Andre Alexis has been named one of eight recipients of Yale University&#8217;s Windham-Campbell Prize, which comes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16019,14468],"class_list":["post-91999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-andre-alexis","tag-fifteen-dogs","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91999","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=91999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}