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Nino Ricci Speaks at Princeton

By MetaxaCunningham, Thursday, April 7, 2011

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I wanted to share a great opportunity with Skirt! Author, Nino Ricci is speaking in Princeton, New Jersey!

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When: Wednesday, April 20
4:30 - 6pm
What: Extraordinary Canadians: Nino Ricci on Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A reading and discussion with internationally-acclaimed, award-winning author Nino Ricci as he revisits the life and influence of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Trudeau is the subject of a recent biography written by Ricci for the series "Extraordinary Canadians" published by Penguin Canada. Trudeau also makes an appearance in Ricci's recent award-winning novel The Origin of Species.

In addition, an advance clip from the forthcoming documentary on Trudeau, featuring Nino Ricci, will be screened courtesy of PMA Productions. The television documentary will air in Fall 2011 on Rogers OMNI and The Biography Channel as part of the Extraordinary Canadians documentary series.

Love him or hate him, Pierre Trudeau marked us all. The man whose motto was “reason over passion” managed to arouse in Canadians the fiercest of passions of every hue, ones that even today cloud our view of him and of his place in our history. Nino Ricci takes as his starting point the crucial role Trudeau played in the formation of his own sense of identity to look at how he expanded us as a people, not in spite of his contradictions but because of them.
“If he hadn’t existed, we would have had to invent him. In many ways, of course, we did.”
~ from Pierre Elliott Trudeau by Nino Ricci

Who:

Nino Ricci’s first novel, Lives of the Saints, garnered international acclaim, appearing in fifteen countries and winning a host of awards including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and in England, the Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Prize. It formed the first volume of a trilogy that was completed by In A Glass House and Where She Has Gone, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize for Fiction. The Lives of the Saints trilogy was adapted as a miniseries starring Sophia Loren and Kris Kristofferson. Ricci is also the author of Testament, co-winner of the Trillium Award, and The Origin of Species, which earned Ricci his second Governor General’s Award for Fiction as well as the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award. Ricci's most recent book is a biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, part of Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians series.

How:
Free and open to the public.