Nino Ricci - Q & A

Artist Nino Ricci CWIP Series 2009 Submitted by Prathna in July, 2009 View full citation

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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.

The Lives of the Saints trilogy was recently adapted for a television miniseries (2004) starring Sophia Loren, Nick Mancuso, and Kris Kristofferson. Ricci’s most recent novel, Testament (Doubleday Canada, 2002), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was the co-winner of the Trillium Award. His new novel, The Origin of Species, was published by Doubleday Canada, September 2008.