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Rawi Hage and the IMPAC, plus some Giller things

Submitted by Nathan Whitlock 2008 on June 13, 2008 - 10:53am
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As you've probably heard, Montrealer Rawi Hage won the Dublin IMPAC for his first novel, De Niro's Game (House of Anansi Press).

It's an astonishing and deserved win. Congratulations, Rawi.

Read a profile of Hage from the new issue of Quill & Quire (shameless day-job plug) here.

For more Hage-related reading, feel free to go waaayy back to 2006 for a discussion of the Giller Prize that year. (Hage was nominated, but lost out to Vincent Lam.)

And if that whets your appetite for lengthy Giller diatribes, then read this essay by Alex Good.

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A beautifully written story about a father and daughter and the secrets they keep. I loved the structure of the novel, which moves from 24 seconds, to minutes, to days and so on. Wish I’d thought of that.

http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_id=1372

Nathan Whitlock

Nathan Whitlock is the review editor of Quill & Quire magazine. His writing and reviews have appeared in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Toro, Geist, Saturday Night and elsewhere. His novel, A Week of This: a novel in seven days, was published this spring by ECW Press.

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