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3.36 of 5 Votes: 1
0241144442 (ISBN13: 9780241144442)
English
Hamish Hamilton
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(PDF) Immigration and Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach iman ElSaadany – His speaker lives among and even communes with cockroaches, and he recognizes his shared animality with them, extending his own concern with food and water scarcity to the non-human beings that share his home.
Cockroach. Rawi Hage (2009)
About book: I did not like this book-- too dark, too sexual, probably too deep for me. I am still trying to figure out why he feels he is half cockroach. Was he feeling that he is a pest (he spends time killing cockroaches in his apartment), that he has no worth, etc.? I did not like how he invaded people's houses and lives with no thought or care about their feelings or possessions. Hage is a VERY descriptive writer, perhaps too descriptive for me. I wouldn't recommend this book. Coackroach by Rawi Hage is hot fury and loathing and pride and bristling lust and disgust -- and bloody brilliant.I read his De Niro's Game previously, and loved it, but Cockroach is a whole other level of brilliant. I'd place this novel alongside works by Kafka and Dostoevsky and other such greats. It is searing, scarring. It bursts through the soft middle of much pleasant, storied CanLit with claws. It is not a nice book to read, you won't come away feeling good about the world or yourself or Canada. You won't love the characters or even the place they reside. It will knock you, unsettle and stagger your faith in all things.For me, Rawi Hage is Canada's greatest author. I can't wait to see what he'll do next.
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Harrowing and unnerving. Kafka meets Dostoyevsky in the Canadian winter.
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Hage at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
Born | Beirut, Lebanon |
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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 several 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]
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.
- ^'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.
- ^'Montreal's Hage wins 2 Quebec literary awards'. CBC News. CBC. 2006-11-23. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^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.
- ^'Wikiwix's cache'. archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ^'Wikiwix's cache'. archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ^'Wikiwix's cache'. archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ^'Wikiwix's cache'. archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Rawi Hage at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Rawi Hage at Wikiquote
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