Dimitri Nasrallah

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Dimitri Nasrallah
Born1977 (1977) (age 47)
Lebanon
Occupationwriter and academic
NationalityCanadian

Dimitri Nasrallah (born 1977) is a Lebanese Canadian writer and academic. [1] He is most noted for his 2022 novel Hotline, which was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize. [2]

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Born in Lebanon in the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, Nasrallah's family took refuge in Cyprus and Greece before immigrating to Montreal in 1988. [3] [4]

His debut novel, Blackbodying, was published in 2004, [5] and was the winner of the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 2005. [6] His second novel, Niko, was published in 2011, [7] and his third novel, The Bleeds, followed in 2018. [8] His latest book, Hotline, published in 2022, was selected for the 2023 edition of Canada Reads , where it was championed by Gurdeep Pandher. [9]

Nasrallah is also a professor of creative writing at Concordia University, [1] [4] and the chief editor for Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint of Véhicule Press. [10]

Awards and honours

Awards for Nasrallah's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
2005Blackbodying McAuslan First Book Prize Winner [11]
2005Grand Prix du Livre de MontréalFinalist [4]
2011Niko Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner [12]
2022HotlineCBC Canada Reads Nominee [9]
2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist [2] [13]
2023 ReLit Award for FictionFinalist [14]

Publications

As author

As translator

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