Giller Prize and Moral Questions

Rogers Writers Trust: And through their grappling with difficult moral questions, they offer a glimpse into a very human world. André Alexis wins 2015 Giller Prize for Fifteen Dogs How 3 writers of colour stormed 2015 major literary prizes Giller Prize finalists imagine adaptations of their nominated books Fifteen Dogs won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize last fall, in addition to nabbing the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for the same novel, according to CBC. There a long history of talking animals in literature. With their new ability to reason, the dogs turn into poets and philosophers, ideologues and martyrs. They've been used to illuminate the failings of man moral reasoning ; their stories serve as allegories or cautionary tales ; and sometimes they're just plain entertainment . Listen to the full interview with Andre Alexis on CBC Radio Ideas on Monday Feb. 29 at 9 p.m. Unlike many of literature famous talking beasts, Alexis dogs speak their own language. ET. But there a key difference between those stories and Fifteen Dogs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.