Canadian novelist
Nino Ricci
Nino Pio Ricci (born 1959) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto , Ontario .[ 1] 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 (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997).
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 [ edit ]
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
2011 Member of the Order of Canada [ 2]
Lives of the Saints (1990) (inspiration for a TV miniseries directed by Jerry Ciccoritti )
In a Glass House (1993)
Where She Has Gone (1997)
Testament (2002)
The Origin of Species (2008)
Sleep (2015)
Roots and Frontiers (essays and memoir) (2003)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (biography) (2009)
1930s 1940s
Ringuet , Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker , The Pillar (1952)
David Walker , Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall , Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies , The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence , The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel , Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley , The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro , The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington , Whale Music (1989)
1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra , The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas , Five Wives (2019)
2020s
Marian Engel Award (1986-2007) Timothy Findley Award (2002-2007) Engel/Findley Award (2008-present)
1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
International National Artists Other