Alexis Wrote A Book Set In Trinidad But His Parents Hated It, So He Put It Away
One day Canada’s top novelist will write about Trinidad. André Alexis wins the Writer’s Trust for his book set in Ontario By Stephen Weir Author André Alexis is the toast of English Canada. Last Tuesday in Toronto the Trinidadian Canadian won the prestigious $50,000 Writers' Trust fiction prize for his English language novel "Days by Moonlight". This is the fourth time Alexis has been nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the second time he has won it. He is only the second author in the country to capture the award twice. Miriam Toews also won the trophy two times. Days by Moonlight is his seventh novel. The book is about Alfred Homer who takes a Southern Ontario road trip to investigate the story of John Skennen, a poet whose ghost haunts a few souls around the province! Days by Moonlight is part of his "quincunx" of five thematically linked novels. The second installment in the series, "Fifteen Dogs,