Nino Ricci

Nino Ricci, a Canadian of Italian descent, portrays the long journey from Italy to Canada in his trilogy Lives of the Saints (1990), In a Glass House (1993), and Where She Has Gone (1997). In her lyrical and meditative novels Plainsong (1993), The Mark of…

…novelist Rohinton Mistry, Italian-Canadian novelist Nino Ricci, and Sri Lankan-born novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, whose novel In the skin of a Lion, about the immigrant experience in 1920s Toronto, is one of the most iconic books set in the city.