A vast world in ten minutes • Rawi Hage

A Lebanese-born English-language writer and photographer based in Canada, Rawi Hage has earned a reputation as one of the most imaginative authors in recent years through his books in which he manages to thread existential questions into a narrative riddled with the violence of civil war and black, biting humor, populated by characters desperate to break free of the mold that is their fatal destiny. De Niro's Game, Carnival, Cockroach, and Beirut Hellfire Society have all been translated into French.