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Hage at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | Beirut, Lebanon |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
| Nationality | Lebanese, Canadian |
| Notable works | De Niro's Game, Cockroach |
| Partner | Madeleine Thien |
Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj; born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer and photographer based in Canada.
Writing[edit]
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,[1] 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.'[2]De Niro's Game was also awarded two Quebec awards, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize.[3] De Niro's Game was translated into Arabic by Ruhi Tu'mah in 2008 as مصائر الغبار [4]
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.[5] He was the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2008 and 2012 for his books Cockroach and Carnival, respectively.[citation needed]
In August 2013, he was named Vancouver Public Library's ninth writer in residence.[6]
He is the common-law partner of novelist Madeleine Thien.[7]
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His 2018 novel Beirut Hellfire Society was named as a longlisted nominee for the Giller Prize,[8] and a shortlisted finalist for both the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[9] and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[10]
In 2019 he won the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada.[11]
Bibliography[edit]
- De Niro's Game (2006)
- Cockroach (2008)
- Carnival (2012)
- Beirut Hellfire Society (2018)
Awards and nominations[edit]
- Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction (2006)[12]
- Winner of the McAuslan First Book Prize (2006)[13]
- Winner of International Dublin Literary Award (2008)[14]
- Winner of the Quebec Booksellers' Prize (2008)[15]
- Winner of Le Combat des livres (2009)[16]
References[edit]
- ^Wagner, Vit (2008-06-12). 'Montreal writer wins big Irish prize'. Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-09-02.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage, wins the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award'. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Dublin City Public Libraries. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-09-02.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'Montreal's Hage wins 2 Quebec literary awards'. CBC News. CBC. 2006-11-23. Retrieved 2009-09-02.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^زينب مرعي 2010. راوي حاج تطهّر من أدران الحرب . al-akhbar.com
- ^'Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: History'.
- ^'Award-winning author Rawi Hage named VPL's ninth Writer in Residence'.
- ^'Vancouver's Madeleine Thien 'moved' to receive prestigious Man Booker Prize nod'. Metro, July 27, 2016.
- ^'Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Tanya Tagaq among 12 authors longlisted for 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize'. CBC Books, September 17, 2018.
- ^'Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists'. Quill & Quire, September 26, 2018.
- ^'Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General’s fiction prize'. Toronto Star, October 3, 2018.
- ^Deborah Dundas, 'Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards'. Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
- ^'Wikiwix's cache'. archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2018-05-27.Cite uses generic title (help)
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- ^'Wikiwix's cache'. archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2018-05-27.Cite uses generic title (help)
External links[edit]
- Media related to Rawi Hage at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Rawi Hage at Wikiquote
Winner of the 2008 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2008 Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2008 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the 2008 Governor-General’s Award for Fiction
Selected for Canada Reads 2014
Longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
A Globe and Mail Best Book ~ 2008
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Rawi Hage himself is an interesting character; he’s a Lebanese immigrant to Canada, suffered through his home country’s civil war, he’s lived in New York, is an accomplished photographer, drove a cab, and somehow managed to end up and settle in Montreal in 1992. In addition to all of this, he has a dark brooding look that just oozes intensity. He seemed to explode out of nowhere onto the Canadian literary scene in 2006 with the now contemporary classic De Niro’s Game. Hage’s first novel was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor-General’s Award and won the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – one of the world’s richest literary prizes and at the time, one of the only worldwide English language awards. Hage published novel number two, Cockroach, in 2008. The accolades and nominations quickly rolled in further cementing his place in 21st Century Canadian literary culture.
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This was my first introduction to Rawi Hage. I haven’t yet read De Niro’s Game or his third novel Carnival. Cockroach is the story of an unnamed narrator making his way through a cold Montreal winter in an unspecified time. The narrator is an Arabian immigrant who lives in utter poverty. He recently tried to kill himself and is forced to have regular sessions with a therapist where he delves into his shady and pragmatic past growing up in his home country. In Montreal, he befriends and falls for Shohreh, a member of the Iranian diaspora into which he has been adopted. All the while, the narrator has recurring fantasies and hallucinations of himself becoming a cockroach, slithering and crawling his way through the underworld and into the homes and lives of those he admires and despises. This unnamed narrator is very gritty and dark but at the same time is very “real.” His pragmatism and survival instincts trump all else – including his better judgment.
This novel is equal parts psychological, psychedelic and Kafkaesque. Frankly, other than the flashbacks during the therapy sessions, very little happens in terms of plot in this novel. We are taken on a journey through the narrator’s exploration of the mundane and every word of it is riveting. We see the plight of the impoverished immigrant, the closed-in nature of the a diaspora in a large city, the baggage that a newcomer brings with him from his homeland, and just how far someone can go to survive and how the very definition of “survival” is entirely subjective. We join our storyteller as he collects welfare cheques, works as a busboy, smokes hash and snorts coke with his Iranian friends, and talks out his past with his therapist; we then join him through kaleidoscopic fantasies and delusions of becoming the cockroach.
The highlight of Cockroach was the quality of the writing. Rawi Hage uses a poetic language that is free of pretension that is so hard to find in contemporary fiction; it exudes elevated prose but doesn’t reek of MFA syndrome. He uses highly imaginative metaphors and spares no graphic detail.
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Rawi Hage is at the forefront and very representative of the current generation of future CanLit icons: born outside our borders, a working class background (i.e. he’s not an English professor), highly original stories that are rooted in literary tradition, and willing to take risks in his writing. That being said, Cockroach is a masterpiece of psychological fiction. This is a novel for anyone that wants to delve into the dark nether-regions of the human soul with the possibility of never coming out.