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 Added on 11/07/2013 M.-Lynx-Qualey Arab writers , Beirut , Carnival , Entertainment/Culture , Literature , Novel , Rawi Hage

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Awards and acclaim have collected around Rawi Hage ever since he published his debut novel in 2006.

Although Hage came relatively late to novel writing, his first, De Niro’s Game, won the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Other awards followed for his second novel, Cockroach, and his third, Carnival, which was released in the U.S.

just last month.

Born in Beirut, the now Canada-based Hage didn’t begin his career as a novelist — he arrived at writing via photography — and English is his third language, picked up through studies and taxi driving in New York City, where he moved in 1984.

But writing novels in English is clearly his calling: “Once I discovered that I can writ