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Nino Ricci


Canada (b.1959)

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 the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction and a Betty Trask Award.
 
 
Series
Lives of the Saints
   1. Lives of the Saints (1990)
     aka The Book of Saints
   2. In a Glass House (1993)
   3. Where She Has Gone (1997)
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Novels
   Testament (2002)
   The Origin of Species (2008)
   Sleep (2015)
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Anthologies edited
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Non fiction show
 
Nino Ricci recommends
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Long Change (2015)
Don Gillmor
"With the bravura of E.L. Doctorow and the elemental force of Cormac McCarthy."

Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1991) : Lives of the Saints


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