Co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Rawi Hage is the author of the novel Deniro’s Game which was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor’s General Award in 2006. He was born inBeirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He immigrated to Canada in 1992. He is a writer, a visual artist and a curator. His writings have appeared in Fuse Magazine, Minza, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai and Al-Jadid. His visual works have been shown in gallaries and museums around the world. He is also a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec. He resides in Montreal.