Join internationally acclaimed author Rawi Hage for a live conversation with visual artist and filmmaker Annie MacDonell to mark the publication of his highly anticipated story collection, Stray Dogs. Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.

Copies of Stray Dogs: And Other Stories are available for sale at Another Story Bookshop. 

Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine  years  of  the Lebanese Civil War during the 1970s and  1980s before immigrating to Canada. He is the author of four previous, acclaimed novels, including his debut De Niro’s  Game, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was  shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. His second novel, Cockroach, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s  Literary Award and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent two novels, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, were  similarly nominated for numerous awards and published internationally. Rawi Hage lives in Montreal.

Annie MacDonell is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her original training was in photography, and the image continues to play a central role in her projects, but her work also includes installation, sculpture, writing, performance and film. A survey of her recent work just concluded at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, and she has upcoming shows at the Audain Gallery, in Vancouver, the Illingworth Kerr gallery in Calgary, and the RMG Gallery in Oshawa. Annie MacDonell lives in Toronto with her family and is an Assistant Professor at X University’s School of Image Arts. She is a founding member of  Emilia Amalia, a feminist research and writing group.