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Rawi Hage
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut in 1964 and grew up during the civil war in Lebanon. He left for New York when he was 18 years old. After adopting the English language there and earning his living as a salesperson and warehouse worker among other various jobs for 8 years, when his visa expired in 1991 he moved to Canada. In Montreal he studied photography and a few years later was exhibiting his photographs. He started writing by accident – saying of himself: "I am an accidental writer" – when he travelled through Canada as a photographer and was asked to provide written documentation of his work. Instead of submitting sober, technical reports he accompanied his photographs with short stories that were received very positively.
He is the author of three best-selling novels, Carnival (2012), Cockroach (2008) and De Niro’s Game (2006). Each was awarded the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, with De Niro’s game also winning the international IMPAC prize and the McAuslan First Book Prize.
For more information about Rawi Hage, click here
Click here to read the review of Carnival by Susannah Tarbush in Banipal 48 (2013).
Click here to read the review of Cockroach by Amir Taheri in Banipal 36 (2009).
Click here to read the review of De Niro's Game by Zuzana Kratka in Banipal 28 (2007).
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 75 - Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature
Banipal 54 - ECHOES (Autumn/Winter 2015)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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