Rawi Hage

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj; born 1964) 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 (2006), won the 2008 International Dublin Literary Award,[3] and was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2006 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 2008 as مصائر الغبار[6]

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.[7] He was the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2008 and 2012 for his books Cockroach and Carnival, respectively.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In August 2013, he was named Vancouver Public Library's ninth writer in residence.[8]

His 2018 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]

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In 2019 he won the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada.[12]

His 2022 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 2008 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.[13]

Awards for Hage's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2006 De Niro's Game Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Shortlist [14]
McAuslan First Book Prize Winner [15]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist [16]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist [17]
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner [18][19]
2008 Cockroach Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Shortlist [20]
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner [19][18]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist [16]
De Niro's Game International Dublin Literary Award Winner [21][22][23][18]
2009 Parfum de poussière Le Combat des livres Winner [24]
2012 Carnival Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner [19][18]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist [16][25]
2018 Beirut Hellfire Society Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Shortlist [26]
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Shortlist [19][27][28]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist [16][29]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist [30]
2022 Stray Dogs Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Shortlist [31][32]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist [33][34]

Bibliography

References

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  1. ↑ "Rawi Hage", Penguin Random House Canada.
  2. ↑ "Vancouver's Madeleine Thien 'moved' to receive prestigious Man Booker Prize nod" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Metro, July 27, 2016.
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  6. ↑ زينب مرعي 2010. راوي حاج تطهّر من أدران الحرب . al-akhbar.com
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  10. ↑ "Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Quill & Quire, September 26, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General’s fiction prize" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Toronto Star, October 3, 2018.
  12. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
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