Nino Ricci
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Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in 1959 in Leamington, Ontario, into a family of Italian immigrants from the province of Isernia, Molise.
In 1981 Ricci graduated in English literature, in 1987 he earned a second degree in creative writing and Canadian literature, both from York University. 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 both the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction.
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.
[edit] Works
- Lives of the Saints - 1990 (winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and inspiration for a TV miniseries directed by Jerry Ciccoritti)
- In a Glass House - 1993
- Where She Has Gone - 1997
- Testament - 2002 (co-winner of the 2002 Trillium Book Award)
- Roots and Frontiers
