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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Nino Ricci was born in Leamington, Ontario, to parents
from Molise, Italy. After earning a B.A from York University, he
taught school in Nigeria for two years. He spent a year studying
in Italy, and earned an M. A. in Creative Writing from Concordia
University. He now lives in Toronto, where he writes full time.
He is a past president of the Canadian Centre of International
PEN, a writers’ human |
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that works for freedom of expression. His articles and short stories
have appeared in many magazines including Saturday
Night, Alphabet City, Vice Versa, and the Eyeitalian.
His novel, Lives of the Saints (1990),
published in the U.K., the U.S.A, and translated into several languages, won the
Governor General's award for English Fiction and a number of other prizes.
His second novel, In a Glass House (1993), was also a bestseller and
was followed by Where She Has Gone (1997). Nino Ricci's
most recent novel
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The
opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada. |
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