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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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Photos! Politics and the Pen 2013

Last week, the movers and shakers of Ottawa packed into the Chateau Laurier ballroom along with guest authors, politicians and event co-hosts John Baird and Mark Carney for the annual celebration of political writing that is Politics and the Pen, a fundraiser for the Writers' Trust of Canada.

Marcello Di Cintio accepts his Shaughnessy Cohen Prize with co-hosts John Baird and Mark Carney looking on (photo credit: Jake Wright)
2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize finalists Jeffrey Simpson and Peter Trent pose with their wives, Wendy Bryans (l) and Kathryn Stephenson (r) (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Author Stuart Henderson (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Bob Rae, interim leader, Liberal Party of Canada, and his wife, Arlene Perley Rae (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Co-hosts John Baird and Mark Carney stand before the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominated book covers (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Lisa Moore, Noah Richler, Sarah Maclachlan (photo credit: Jake Wright)
P&P committee member Jill Scheer and author Grace O'Connell (photo credit: Jake Wright)
The Ballroom at the Chateau Laurier (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Writer couple Miranda Hill and Lawrence Hill flank 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize winner Tamas Dobozy (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Writer, broadcaster and musician Jian Ghomeshi, broadcaster Evan Solomon, author and historian Tim Cook (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Writers Conrad Black, Barbara Amiel Black, Bob Plamondon (photo credit: Jake Wright)
Writers' Trust Executive Director Mary Osborne, Mark Carney, Politics and the Pen committee member Maureen Boyd (photo credit: Jake Wright)

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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