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

and

at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC Point Grey Campus:
Thursday, March 6^th, 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.