Rawi Hage

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Rawi Hage (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and photographer.

Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1982, and after studying at the New York Institute of Photography, and relocated to Montreal in 1991, where he studied arts at Dawson College and Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had works acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Canada's capital. In addition to his work as a writer and a visual artist, Hage also spent time as a cab driver in Montreal.

Hage has published journalism and fiction in several Canadian magazines. His debut novel, De Niro's Game (2006), won the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award^[1], the most lucrative literary prize in the world for a single novel, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction.

Commenting on their selection, the IMPAC judges remarked on "its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro’s Game as the work of a major literary talent and make Rawi Hage a truly deserving winner." ^[2]

He was also awarded two Quebec awards, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, at the Quebec Writers' Federation literary awards.^[3] His second novel, Cockroach, was published in 2008 and was also a shortlisted nominee for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, as well as being the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, awarded by the Quebec Writers' Federation.

[edit] Bibliography

• De Niro's Game (2006)
• Cockroach (2008)

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[edit] External links

• "The Lands within Me - Artists' biographies". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930044108/http://www.civilization.ca/cultur/cespays/pay2_07e.html. 
• An interview with Rawi Hage
• "Révolution et littérature," a short story adapted from the novel Cockroach and published in PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers