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Nino Ricci

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Nino Ricci was born in Leamington, Ontario in 1959, to parents from the Molise region of Italy. He studied at York University, Concordia University, and the University of Florence. Ricci has taught literature and creative writing, and was the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor in 2005-06. He has also served as president of PEN Canada. He now lives in Toronto, where he writes full time.

Bibliography
Lives of Saints (1990)
In a Glass House (1993)
Where She Has Gone (1997)
Testament (2003)

Awards
Trillium Book Award (2003) for Testament
Governor General's Award for Fiction for Lives of the Saints
W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award for Lives of the Saints
F.G. Bressani Prize for Prose for Lives of the Saints
Betty Trask Award for Fiction, U.K. for Lives of the Saints
Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel, U.K. for Lives of the Saints.

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Works in the Archive

Nino Ricci - Q & A

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Nino Ricci’s first novel the best-selling Lives of the Saints(Cormorant, 1990) garnered international acclaim, appearing in over a dozen countries and winning a host of awards including, in Canada, the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and in England, the Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Prize. It was followed by In A Glass House (McClelland & Stewart, 1993) and Where She Has Gone (McClelland & Stewart, 1997), which completed the trilogy that Lives of the Saints began.

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