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Nino Ricci fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1962-2000.

Reference:

R16829-0-6-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Moving images, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5791566

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Nino Ricci fonds
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Fonds includes:

13 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1962-2000.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

11.5 m of textual records.
549 photographs : 321 col. and 174 b&w; 54 b&w negatives.
16 cassette tapes.
4 micro-cassette tapes.
14 videocassettes : VHS.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French, Italian, Spanish, German

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Nino Ricci fonds [multiple media]

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Fonds contains drafts of Ricci's published and unpublished works, both fiction and non-fiction. This includes drafts and published copies of articles and reviews, as well as annotated drafts of Lives of the Saints, In a Glass House, Where She Has Gone, and short stories and poetry. Fonds also includes both personal and professional correspondence. Professional correspondence includes letters between Ricci and his publishers, both Canadian and international, writers' organizations, event planners, and readers. This fonds includes other professional documents such as event schedules, grant applications, research notes, speech drafts, and short stories from contests that Ricci juried. Fonds also includes documents from Ricci's time working with PEN Canada, including correspondence, meeting minutes, budgets and audits, newsletters, and press releases. This fonds also includes memorabilia from Ricci's personal life, including photographs, diaries, course work from high school and university, class handouts and documentation from his time teaching in Nigeria, financial records, and voicemail recordings.

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Ricci, Nino, 1959-

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Ricci, Nino, 1959- : Nino Ricci was born in 1959 in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrant parents. He earned a BA in English literature from York University in 1981, and a Master's in Creative Writing from Concordia University in 1987. Between 1981 and 1983, Ricci taught English language and literature in Nigeria through CUSO. He would later serve as PEN Canada's president from 1995-1996. His published works include Lives of the Saints (1990), In a Glass House (1993), Where She Has Gone (1997), Testament (2002), Roots and Frontiers (2003), The Origin of Species (2008), Pierre Elliott Trudeau (2009), and Sleep (2015). Ricci's work has won multiple awards, including two Governor General's awards for Fiction, first for Lives of the Saints in 1990, then again for The Origin of Species in 2008. He won the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award twice, once for The Origin of Species in 2008, then for Sleep in 2016. Other awards include the F.G. Bressani Prize for Prose and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1990, the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel and the Betty Trask Award for Fiction in 1991, the Trillium Book Award in 2002, the Alistair MacLeod Award for Literary Achievement in 2006, the Member of the Order of Canada in 2011, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

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Language note:

This fonds includes some records in languages other than English and French, including Italian, Spanish German.

Source:

Private

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2016-00717-6
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27