News - Part 4

8 April – GritLIT

Nino reads at Hamilton’s GritLIT Festival. Friday 8 April 2016 at 8:30 PM at the Hamilton Art Gallery.

SLEEP Makes Top 5 Fiction List

From the thousands of fiction titles released in English in 2015 from around the world, Toronto Star reviewers have placed Nino Ricci’s Sleep in the year’s Top 5, along with Giller-shortlisted Martin John by fellow Canadian Anakana Schofield, the internationally acclaimed Story of the Lost Child by Italian phenomenon Elena Ferrante, the runaway bestseller The Girl on the Train by British author Paula Hawkins, and U.S. author Kelly Link’s stunning story collection Get in Trouble.

“Sleep was unaccountably overlooked this literary prize season, despite being Ricci’s best work yet,” writes one of the Star reviewers. Writes another, “If endemic narcissism is one of the central pathologies of contemporary culture, then Ricci has crafted with Sleep one of its holy texts.”

Ricci, contacted at the rehab centre where he is currently at work on a new novel, said that making the list came as a bit of a surprise. “Because frankly the review the Star gave me when the book first came out actually kind of sucked.”

27 Jan – Kama Reading Series

World Literacy Canada’s Kama Reading Series 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 ~ 6 PM
Gardiner Museum ~ 111 Queen’s Park, Toronto

 6 PM – Doors open, wine & food served
7 PM – Readings begin
8 PM – Panel discussion and Q&A
8:30 – Author book-signing

“Kama” is the Sanskrit word for pleasure. Join World Literacy Canada in celebrating literature and literacy. On January 27, Nino Ricci joins Nazneen Sheikh, author of Moon Over Marrakech: A Memoir of Loving Too Deeply in a Foreign Land and, most recently, The Place of Shining Light, and Judith McCormack, author of The Rule of Last Clear Chance, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award, and the novel Backspring, published in 2015.

To purchase 2016 Kama Series Pass tickets visit the Kama Series web site or call 416.977.0008.

9 Dec – Ruffolo & Ricci

The Business of Culture
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 ~ Toronto

Stay tuned for the broadcast on TLN Television

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5 Dec – Write for Rights

Amnesty International Writeathon
Saturday, December 5, 2015 ~ 1 PM to 7 PM
Centre for Social Innovation Annex ~ 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto

WRITE A LETTER. CHANGE A LIFE.
JOIN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FOR WRITE FOR RIGHTS.

Your hand-written letters, combined with millions from around the world, can change a life. Become part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights by signing up to host or join a letter writing party, or by writing on your own. However you participate, you’ll be adding your voice to the growing movement for justice and human rights.

Come out to the Centre for Social Innovation Annex at 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto on December 5th or check out the dozens of other Amnesty International activities in your area and across the country in celebration of Human Rights Day on December 10th.

25 Nov – Writers’ Trust Gala

Writers’ Trust Gala 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM
The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto

The annual Writers’ Trust Gala is a true celebration of Canadian authors and Canadian literature and a major fundraising event in support of the Trust’s programs. Join some of this year’s hottest authors for an evening of food, fun and conversation. Hosted by Steve Patterson.