Nino Ricci’s first novel was the internationally acclaimed Lives of the Saints. It spent 75 weeks on the Globe and Mail‘s bestseller list and was the winner in Canada of the F.G. Bressani Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and in England of the Betty Trask Award and Winifred Holtby Prize.

Published in seventeen countries, Lives of the Saints was the first volume of a trilogy that continued with In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone. The trilogy was adapted for a television miniseries starring Sophia Loren and Kris Kristofferson.

Nino’s other novels include Testament, winner of the Trillium Award, and The Origin of Species, winner of the Canadian Authors Fiction Award of Nino’s second Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His most recent novel is Sleep, which also received the Canadian Author’s Award for Fiction. 

Nino has served as a writer-in-residence and taught creative writing and literature at institutions across Canada and the U.S., including at Colorado College and Princeton University. His most recent appointment was as the inaugural Alice Munro Chair in Creativity at Western University. In 2011, he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to literature.