Rawi Hage, born in Lebanon, lived nine years of the Lebanese war during the 1970s in Beirut. In '91. he immigrated to Canada, where he studied photography in college Dawson and Concordia University. He is an award-winning writer, visual artist, and curator. The novel De Niro's game , his debut, was translated into thirty languages, and brought him international literary fame the IMPAC Dublin award for the best book published in English in 2008. year. Lives and works in Montreal.