Lino Rufo, Dom Fiore, Andrea Ramolo and Nino Ricci open this year’s Librissimi, Toronto’s Italian book festival, with a tribute in music and spoken word to the late poet and novelist Giose Rimanelli.
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I Migliori Awards
Nino Ricci has been named one of the recipients of the Pirandello Lyceum’s 2025 I Migliori Awards. This year marks the 40th anniversary of an award that Boston Magazine has called the most prestigious honour to be received by a person of Italian descent. Normally reserved for American citizens, the Lyceum has chosen this year to include a Canadian among its honorees.
The award ceremony will take place on April 12th in Peabody, Massachusetts.
Write on the French River
From May 25th to the 30th Nino Ricci will be joining writers Don Gillmor and Alison Wearing at the 12th annual Write on the French River Creative Writing Retreat. Hosted by the Lodge at Pine Cove, the retreat offers wordsmiths, travellers, innovators, poets, and dreamers the gift of time to pursue their craft on a storied waterway and the chance to work with some of the country’s leading writers.
Killam Professor
Nino Ricci has been named the Killam Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies for Fall 2024 at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Ricci was the inaugural holder of the professorship in 2009 and will be reprising his role this fall as part of Bridgewater’s vibrant Canadian Studies program.
Bridgewater’s Canadian Studies program has promoted research, teaching, and learning about Canada and Canadian-American relations since 1973. The Killam professorship is one of the few endowed chairs in Canadian Studies in the U.S. In addition to teaching an advanced course in creative writing Ricci will be taking part in an international symposium on his work to be held at the university this October.