Nino Ricci

Nino Ricci (born 23 Aug 1959) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise.

Ricci received a B.A. in English literature from York University, Toronto in 1981 and a Master's in Creative Writing from Concordia University, Montreal in 1987. Ricci has travelled in Europe and Africa, where, in Nigeria, he taught English literature and language in a high school for two years.

Ricci's first novel Lives of the Saints was a great critical and commercial success. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction and a Betty Trask Award.

Ricci served as one of the directors of PEN Canada from 1990-96, and as president during 1995-96. He was the writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor for the 2005-06 academic year.

Awards and nominations

• 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction for Lives of the Saints
• 1990 Books in Canada First Novel Award for Lives of the Saints
• 1997 Giller Prize (shortlist for Where She Has Gone)
• 2002 Trillium Book Award (co-winner for Testament)
• 2006 Alistair MacLeod Award for Literary Achievement
• 2008 Giller Prize (longlist for The Origin of Species)
• 2008 Governor General's Award for Fiction for The Origin of Species

Works

Novels

• 1990 Lives of the Saints (inspiration for a TV miniseries directed by Jerry Ciccoritti)
• 1993 In a Glass House
• 1997 Where She Has Gone
• 2002 Testament
• 2008 The Origin of Species

Non-Fiction

• 2009 Pierre Elliott Trudeau (biography)
• 2003 Roots and Frontiers (essays and memoir)

External links

• Official Web site
• Nino Ricci's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia