Rawi hage biography of albert

Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer

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 a