Rawi Hage

Rawi Hage (born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Montreal, Quebec, in Canada.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. His second novel, Cockroach (2008) was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He was the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2008 and 2012 for his books Cockroach and Carnival, respectively. In 2019 he won the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada.His 2022 collection of short stories, Stray Dogs, earned him his fourth Giller Prize nomination.