Nino Ricci
Nino Pio Ricci 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 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. It forms a trilogy with Ricci's next two novels, In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone.
Ricci served as one of the directors of PEN Canada from 1990 to 1996, 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
- 2002 Trillium Book Award
- 2006 Alistair MacLeod Award for Literary Achievement
- 2008 Giller Prize
- 2008 Governor General's Award for Fiction for The Origin of Species
- 2011 Member of the Order of Canada
Works
Novels
- Lives of the Saints
- In a Glass House
- Where She Has Gone
- Testament
- The Origin of Species
- ''Sleep''
Non-Fiction
- Roots and Frontiers
- ''Pierre Elliott Trudeau''