Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj; born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Montreal, Quebec, in Canada.

Commenting on their selection, the Dublin Literary Award judges remarked that "its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro's Game as the work of a major literary talent and make Rawi Hage a truly deserving winner.

[5] De Niro's Game was translated into Arabic by Ruhi Tu'mah in 2008 as مصائر الغبار[6] His second novel, Cockroach, was published in 2008 and was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

[citation needed] In August 2013, he was named Vancouver Public Library's ninth writer in residence.

[8] His 2018 novel Beirut Hellfire Society was named as a longlisted nominee for the Giller Prize,[9] and a shortlisted finalist for both the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[10] and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.