Arrival: A Special Public Lecture by Rawi Hage and Madeleine Thien

Rawi Hage is an internationally celebrated fiction writer whose work has been translated into 30 languages, and nominated repeatedly for all major Canadian fiction prizes. Mr. Hage’s first novel, entitled De Niro’s Game (House of Anansi Press, 2006), and set largely in wartime Lebanon, won the International IMPAC Dublin Award. His second novel, entitled Cockroach (House of Anansi Press, 2008), won the Paragraphe/Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist. His most recent novel is Carnival (House of Anansi Press, 2013), which won the Paragraphe/Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and is a riveting account of a taxi driver who reveals the frequently disavowed underside of our global cities.Madeleine Thien is the author of three books of fiction, including her most recent novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, which was a finalist of the 2014 International Literature Prize awarded in Berlin. She is a recipient of the City of Vancouver Book Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and the Ovid Festival Prize, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Granta, PEN America, Asia Literary Review, Brick and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. Since 2010, she has been part of the international faculty in the MFA program at City University of Hong Kong.