Rawi hage biography

Rawi Hage

Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer

Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj; born ) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Montreal, Quebec, in Canada.[1]

Personal life

Hage is the common-law partner of novelist Madeleine Thien.[2]

Writing

Hage has published journalism and fiction in Canadian and American magazines, and in the PEN America Journal. His debut novel, De Niro's Game (), won the International Dublin Literary Award,[3] and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for English fiction. Commenting on their selection, the Dublin Literary Award 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."[4]De Niro's Game was also awarded two Quebec awards, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize.[5] De Niro's Game was translated into Arabic by Ruhi Tu'mah in as مصائر الغبار[6]

His second novel, Cockroach, was published in and was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[7] He was the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in and for his books Cockroach and Carnival, respectively.[citation needed]

In August , he was named Vancouver Public Library's ninth writer in residence.[8]

His novel Beirut Hellfire Society was named as a longlisted nominee for the Giller Prize,[9] and a shortlisted finalist for both the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[10] and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[11]

In he won the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada.[12]

His novel Stray Dogs earned him his fourth Giller Prize nomination.

Awards and honours

In addition to the awards listed below, Sophie Voillot's translation of De Niro's Game was shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.[13]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^"Rawi Hage", Penguin Random House Canada.
  2. ^"Vancouver's Madeleine Thien 'moved' to receive prestigious Man Booker Prize nod"Archived at the Wayback Machine. Metro, July 27,
  3. ^Wagner, Vit (). "Montreal writer wins big Irish prize". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  4. ^"DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage, wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award". The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Dublin City Public Libraries. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  5. ^"Montreal's Hage wins 2 Quebec literary awards". CBC News. CBC. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  6. ^زينب مرعي راوي حاج تطهّر من أدران الحرب .
  7. ^"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: History". Archived from the original on Retrieved
  8. ^"Award-winning author Rawi Hage named VPL's ninth Writer in Residence". Archived from the original on Retrieved
  9. ^van Koeverden, Jane (). "Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Tanya Tagaq among 12 authors longlisted for Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  10. ^"Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists"Archived at the Wayback Machine. Quill & Quire, September 26,
  11. ^"Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25, Governor General’s fiction prize"Archived at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, October 3,
  12. ^Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards"Archived at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, November 5,
  13. ^"Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation". Quebec Writers' Federation. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  14. ^"Cole, Gaston among nominees for Governor General's awards". Whitehorse Star, October 16,
  15. ^"The Concordia University First Book Prize". Quebec Writers' Federation. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  16. ^ abcd"Rawi Hage". Writers' Trust of Canada. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  17. ^"Awards: Giller Short List". Shelf Awareness. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  18. ^ abcdGrondin, Mélanie (). "Quebec Writers' Federation Honors the Best". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  19. ^ abcd"The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction". Quebec Writers' Federation. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  20. ^"Hage, Ricci finalists for literary prize". Waterloo Region Record, October 22,
  21. ^Flood, Alison (11 June ). "Debut novelist takes €, Impac Dublin prize". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 May Retrieved 22 June
  22. ^Wagner, Vit (). "Montreal writer wins big Irish prize". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  23. ^"Awards: De Niro's Game Wins IMPAC Dublin". Shelf Awareness. June 13, Archived from the original on Retrieved
  24. ^"Combat des livres: ". Canadian Books & Authors. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  25. ^"Awards: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  26. ^"Hage, Toews among finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards". Peterborough Examiner, October 4,
  27. ^"Rawi Hage, Paige Cooper among finalists for Quebec Writers' Federation literary awards". CBC Books. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  28. ^Mudaly, Lee-Ann (). "4 Concordians shortlisted for Quebec Writers Federation awards". Concordia University. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  29. ^Porter, Ryan (). "Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction finalists". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  30. ^"Awards: Scotiabank Giller Longlist; Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners". Shelf Awareness. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  31. ^"Rawi Hage and Sina Queyras among finalists for Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards". CBC Books. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  32. ^Drudi, Cassandra (). "Shortlists announced for QWF awards". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  33. ^"Awards: Stephen Leacock Humor Winner, Scotiabank Giller Shortlist". Shelf Awareness . Archived from the original on Retrieved
  34. ^Dundas, Deborah (). "Rawi Hage, Suzette Mayr among five finalists for the Giller Prize worth $,". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on Retrieved

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