Rawi Hage
| Rawi Hage | |
|---|---|
 Hage at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival. |
|
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable work(s) | De Niro's Game, Cockroach |
Rawi Hage (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and photographer.
Contents |
[edit] Early life and education
Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1984. In 1991, he relocated to Montreal, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had works acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Canada's capital. He holds an MFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In addition to his work as a writer and a visual artist, Hage spent time as a cab driver in Montreal.
[edit] Writing
Hage has published journalism and fiction in several Canadian and American magazines, and in the PEN America Journal. 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 that "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] De Niro's Game was also awarded two Quebec awards, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize[3]
His second novel, Cockroach, was published in 2008 and was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[4] as well as being the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Quebec Writers' Federation.
His work has been translated into 20 languages.
[edit] Bibliography
- De Niro's Game (2006)
- Cockroach (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Wagner, Vit (2008-06-12). "Montreal writer wins big Irish prize". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/441989. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ "DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage, wins the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award". The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Dublin City Public Libraries. http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2008/winner.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ "Montreal's Hage wins 2 Quebec literary awards". CBCnews.ca (CBC). 2006-11-23. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2006/11/23/hage-qwf.html. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ "Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: History". http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Rogers-Writers--Trust-Fiction-Prize/PrizeHistoryandGuidelines/Prize-History.aspx.
[edit] External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rawi Hage |
- "The Anger of Exile New York Review of Books". Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/mar/25/the-anger-of-exile/.
- Lasdun, James (2009-05-23). "Half Man, Half Insect, The Guardian". London. Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/23/cockroach-rawl-hage-review.
- "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.
- Salvador, Faustus (Fall and Winter 2006). "War and Movies". Montreal Review of Books (Quebec: The Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec) 10 (1). http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/feature.php?issue=19&article=545. Retrieved 2009-09-02. – interview
- "Révolution et littérature", a short fiction published in PEN America 10: Fear Itself
- Rawi Hage on culturbase.net
