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Today I finished reading a book, titled "Fifteen Dogs", written by (the?) Canadian writer André Alexis, which has been / was published in 2015.
All relative clauses refer to the book. Is it a natural and correct way? Or should I rephrase the sentence
Firstly, having "the" in front of Canadian writer is entirely optional.
You should say "was published," the past tense, rather than "has been published," the perfect, here.
As a native English speaker, I understood immediately that you were referring to the book, but I think it might even be better to do something like this:
Today I finished reading a book, titled "Fifteen Dogs" by Canadian writer André Alexis, which was published in 2015.
An even better way to do this would be this:
Today I finished reading Fifteen Dogs, a book by Canadian author André Alexis, which was published in 2015.
Or you could try splitting it into two sentences. There are many ways to do this.
