Rawi Hage
photo by Camille Zakharia
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the
Lebanese civil war. He immigrated to Canada in 1992.
He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator. His writings have appeared in Fuse Magazine, Mizna, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai, and Al-Jadid. His visual works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. Rawi Hage is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. He resides in Montreal.
He was the winner of the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for De Niro’s Game. His most recent book, Cockroach, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the GG Literary Awards and the Writers Trust Award.
Books by Rawi Hage
English
Canadian
1964
Beirut