Rawi Hage





Rawi Hage

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born
January 01, 1964 in Beruit, Lebanon

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Rawi Hage is a Canadian writer and photographer.

Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1982, and after studying at the New York Institute of Photography, relocated to Montreal in 1991, where he studied arts at Dawson College and Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had works acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Musée de la civilisation de Québec.

Hage has published journalism and fiction in several Canadian magazines. His debut novel, De Niro's Game, was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction. He was also awarded two Quebec awards, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and th...more


Average rating: 3.57 · 1,173 ratings · 219 reviews · 8 distinct works
De Niro's Game
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 747 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
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Cockroach
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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Il ladro del silenzio
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Exílio
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Glimmer Train Stories #79
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“لم أكن أهرب من الحرب ، بل من فيروز وأغانيها”
Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game

“الطيور تحلّق وكنت أتوق بدوري إلى التحليق بعيدًأ”
Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game

“My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in silence. The snow covered everthing and I walked above cotton, on silent carpets, on beach sand. Softness is temporary and deceiving. It gently receives you and gently expels you.”
Rawi Hage, Cockroach

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