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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 the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction and a Betty Trask Award.
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)
1. Lives of the Saints (1990)
aka The Book of Saints
2. In a Glass House (1993)
3. Where She Has Gone (1997)
Novels
Anthologies edited
Non fiction show
Award nominations
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Nino Ricci recommends
Bad Juliet (2025)
Giles Blunt
"Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form. Giles Blunt captures the world of an early twentieth-century sanitarium with the vividness and nuance of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, all the while confronting us with issues just as pressing today as they were a hundred years ago."
Long Change (2015)
Don Gillmor
"With the bravura of E.L. Doctorow and the elemental force of Cormac McCarthy."
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