Rawi Hage Readings

The Robson Reading Series
and Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
are pleased to announce

TWO readings by

Rawi Hage
Author of DeNiro’s Game
at UBC Robson Square:

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
7:00pm, 800 Robson Street, plaza level

and

at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC Point Grey Campus:
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
3:00pm, 1961 East Mall

All events free to the public.

To read an excerpt from DeNiro’s Game at geist.com, click here.

Rawi Hage is the author of DeNiro’s Game, a novel that was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award in 2006 and he is also a visual artist and curator. His writing has been published in Fuse Magazine, Mizna, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai and Al-Jadid and his visual works have been displayed in galleries and museums around the world. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war before emigrating to Canada in 1992. He now lives in Montreal.

Both events co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

For more information see robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca or vancouver2010.com.