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Nino Ricci won it,\u00a0David Tsubouchi presented it and Christian B\u00f6k\u00a0helped judge it. We\u2019re talking about the $20,000 Trillium Book Award, announced April 23 at a gala Toronto event top heavy with ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030428\/bok.jpg\")
York University alumni.<\/p>\nNino Ricci won it,\u00a0David Tsubouchi presented it and Christian B\u00f6k\u00a0helped judge it. We\u2019re talking about the $20,000 Trillium Book Award, announced April 23 at a gala Toronto event top heavy with York University alumni.<\/p>\n
Left, Nino Ricci;\u00a0right, Christian B\u00f6k<\/strong><\/p>\n All three have English degrees from York. Ricci, who graduated with a BA in 1981, won Ontario\u2019s top literary prize for Testament<\/i>, a novel that follows the life of Christ. B\u00f6k, who graduated with a PhD in 1998 and teaches here, was on the three-person jury that chose Ricci\u2019s book. And Tsubouchi, who earned a BA in 1972 and an Osgoode Hall law degree Left, David Tsubouchi<\/strong><\/p>\n Ricci shared this year\u2019s Trillium for English-language fiction with Austin Clarke, author of The Polished Hoe<\/i>. Of the seven finalists for the prize, two others had York connections. Michael Ondaatje, who teaches English at York's Glendon College, was nominated for The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film<\/em>, and Steve McCaffery, an English professor in the Faculty of Arts,\u00a0was up for Seven Pages Missing (volume 2).<\/em><\/p>\n Ricci has won many literary awards, including the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1990 for his first novel Lives of the Saints<\/i>.<\/p>\n B\u00f6k is also a literary award winner. His book Eunoia<\/i>, the avant-garde bestseller, won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ontario's book award was top-heavy with York alumni -- Nino Ricci won it, David Tsubouchi presented it and Christian B\u00f6k helped judge it... <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-picks"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030428\/tsub2.jpg\")
in 1975, presented the prize as Ontario\u2019s Culture Minister.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20030428\/testbook.jpg\")
Of Testament<\/i>, the jury citation said: \"<\/span>Nino Ricci has created a work of sustained and overwhelming beauty. A spellbinding and richly detailed historical novel, Testament <\/i>unfolds through four narrative voices, each delineated and finely woven, each overlapping and yet moving forward with tidal intent, in a synthesis that is masterfully achieved.\"<\/p>\n