The Origin of Species

Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist born in 1959 in Leamington, Ontario, to Italian immigrant parents. His debut novel, Lives of the Saints (1990), won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and launched a trilogy continued by In a Glass House (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997); he won a second Governor General's Award for The Origin of Species (2008), among other honors including the Order of Canada. His works often explore themes of Italian-Canadian identity, immigration, and historical fiction. Read more →