Nino Ricci is an award-winning and bestselling novelist. His career took off with the publication of Lives of the Saints, his first novel, which won the 1990 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and spent 75 weeks on the Globe and Mail's bestseller list. He won the Governor General's Literary Award again in 2008 for the acclaimed book The Origin of Species. His most recent book is Sleep, a dark story of narcissism and insomnia.

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