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22 Sept – Sleep Launch

The official launch date for Sleep. Look for it in better bookstores everywhere.

 

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17 Sept – Iqaluit

From its origins in 2008 at the Printmakers’ Forum gallery in Windsor, Ontario, the Sense of Place exhibition, featuring works from across Canada, has travelled the country as part of a road show that has included animated discussions among writers and artists on the importance of place in the arts and in our lives. Join Sense of Place for its last stop at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit, Nunavut, running from June 27th to September 20th, 2015, and for  a special tribute by Nino Ricci on Thursday, September 17th, 2015 to the late Alistair MacLeod, who travelled extensively with Sense of Place sharing his insights and work. 

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13 Sept – Eden Mills Festival

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Sunday, September 13th, 2015 –  Catch Nino at the first stop of his fall book tour for Sleep at the celebrated Eden Mills Writers’ Festival in beautiful Eden Mills, Ontario. This year’s line up of over 40 authors includes Michael Crummey, Marina Endicott, Camilla Gibb, Elizabeth Hay, Lawrence Hill, Naomi Klein, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alison Pick, Andrew Pyper, Russell Smith, Kim Thúy and John Vaillant.

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WRITING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

WINDSOR INTERNATIONAL WRITERS CONFERENCE 2014 – WRITING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

November 13th-16th, 2014 at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in downtown Windsor, Ontario

FOR PUBLISHED AUTHORS AND BEGINNERS ALIKE

Keynote speakers include Nino Ricci, Naomi Ragen, Gordon Kirkland, Richard Sykes and Carol Rehme.

For more information, visit the Writing Across Boundaries website.

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Benefit Reading for CJPME

Nino Ricci joins writers Wayson Choy, Terry Fallis, Kyo Maclear, Lee Maracle and Joseph Boyden at a benefit reading in support of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East.

Sunday, 22 September 2013
7 PM
Friends’ House – 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto

CJPME is Canada’s largest grassroots multiethnic secular organization working to promote justice, peace and development in the Middle East. For more information, visit cjpme.org.

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Center for Fiction, NYC

Nino Ricci talks about “Setting as Character” at New York’s Center for Fiction as part of Craftwork, the Center’s series of talks by some of today’s most exciting writers on the nuts and bolts of creating great fiction. Presented in partnership with One Story.

From verdant jungles to frozen mountaintops to isolated prairies, settings in fiction can be more than just evocative, they can become characters in their own right. Nino Ricci will draw on his own use of the Galapagos in his award winning novel The Origin of Species, and show how his real life trip to Darwin’s islands became central to the novel’s vision.

Thursday, 3 October 2013
7 PM
The Center for Fiction • 17 E. 47th St. • New York • 212.755.6710

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Princeton Public Library

Nino Ricci, currently the Pathy Visiting Professor at Princeton, in conversation with veteran interviewer and broadcast journalist Therese Keane.

Part of the Friends of the Princeton Public Library Fall 2013 Series.

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Enjoy wine and light dinner with the Friends at 6:30 pm. Conversations begin at 7:30 pm. Event details and ticket sales now available at: princetonlibrary.org/friends/conversations

Princeton Public Library | Sands Library Building | 65 Witherspoon Street | Princeton | NJ | 08542

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Pathy Visiting Professor at Princeton

Nino Ricci is the Pathy Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University for Fall 2013. His course “Nationalism and Internationalism in the North American Novel” will look at literature’s complicity in the formation of national and cultural identity.

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ASPEN SUMMER WORDS 2013

Hailed as one of America’s “Top Ten Literary Gatherings” by USA Today, Aspen Summer Words 2013, June 16-21, is a six-day retreat that supports writers in developing their craft by providing a winning combination of inspiration, skills, community and opportunity. From author readings to behind-the-book panel discussions, it also offers readers a chance to explore the craft of writing and celebrate the literary arts. 2013 faculty includes: Kathleen Anderson, Tom Barbash, Laura Fraser, Paul Harding, Pam Houston, Scott Lasser, David Lipsky, David St. John and Nino Ricci.

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They Love to Tell the Story

 

In They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels, Kevin Brown examines how Nikos Kazantzakis, Anthony Burgess, Norman Mailer, José Saramago, and Nino Ricci portray each of the major figures from the gospel stories against the backdrop of biblical and legendary lore.

Kevin Brown is an Associate Professor at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. They Love to Tell the Story is available from Kennesaw State University Press.

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Bread, Honey & Fire

Bread, Honey & Fire by Nooshin Salari is a moving story of family and loss set against the backdrop of Iranian history. Salari’s characters go straight to the heart, caught up in forces that move them relentlessly forward even while they keep them always circling back to the past.

Born in Tabriz, Iran, Nooshin Salari moved to Canada in 1992. Her first collection of stories, The End of the Apple Tree, was published by Movarid Press in Tehran and was nominated for a number of literary prizes.

Bread, Honey & Fire is available at Amazon.ca.

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Ricci Awarded Engel/Findley Prize

TORONTO, November 7, 2012 —– At a ceremony in Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre tonight, Nino Ricci was presented with the $25,000 Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Prize, awarded to a writer in mid-career for a body of work.

The award, presented as part of a ceremony that included the awarding of five other prizes and the distribution of a total of $114,000 to Canadian writers, is sponsored by the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Board of Directors, Amazon.ca, and David Ellins. Past recipients include Michael Winter, Miriam Toews, and Wayne Johnston.

“One sometimes hears grumbling in the world at large that there are too many literary prizes,” Ricci said in his acceptance speech, “but what such grumbling fails to take into account is that other professions have perks writers don’t. They’re called incomes.”

This year’s prize was juried by writers Stan Dragland, Wayne Johnston, and Miriam Toews. “Nino Ricci’s prose embodies a sweeping range of talent and technique,” they wrote in their citation. “There are layers upon layers of meaning within his stories, all of which are presented with profound empathy, with compassion not only for his characters, but also for the messy human condition in which we invariably find ourselves. His writing is elegant and understated but driven by an urgent and confident hand. Whether he is examining the life of Jesus or an adulterous Italian mother or a self-loathing academic, Nino Ricci is a superb story-teller. Each of his books is a rare and delicious cocktail. In them a particular time and place is richly brought alive and made palpable, a challenge to the intellect and an exploration of the soul.”

For more information visit www.writerstrust.com.

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Nino Ricci

About Nino

Nino Ricci is the author of award-winning novel The Origin of Species and of the Lives of the Saints trilogy, adapted as a miniseries starring Sophia Loren. For more on Nino's life and work, including his acclaimed biography of Pierre Trudeau, contact Nino's parole officer. Or you can also poke around this nifty … Read more.

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Italian Week Ottawa

Ottawa's Italian Week hosts an evening of conversation with Nino Ricci, including a sneak peek at his new novel, set in London, England in the months leading up … [Read More...]

Librissimi

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 … [Read More...]

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 … [Read More...]

Amnesty International Book Club

Check out the Amnesty International Book Club, the largest free book club in Canada. Members enjoy lots of perks, including free signed books, invitations to author events, and free merchandise. You'll also get discussion guides and a chance to share the authors' own insights on their work.

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