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“The other stuff is a little bit tricky, because you’re sort of not sure how it’s supposed to change how you feel about yourself, or if it’ll change how people feel about you, and you hope not.

“It was really fun doing that, the money part,” he said at Tuesday’s black-tie Giller gala at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. TORONTO - Toronto writer Andre Alexis said he was feeling “pure, unadulterated joy” after winning the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs - just one week after nabbing the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for the same book.