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Niko wins the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Jury comments, "Written in clear, direct, and startlingly lovely prose. . . beautifully imagined and told with honesty and grace, Niko is a gripping and deeply compassionate novel."
Niko reviewed in Montreal's Rover Arts
"Niko is tragic, spirited, resilient and very affecting, " writes Martyn Bryant.

Interview in Winnipeg's Uptown Weekly
"After years of drafts, Dimitri Nssrallah's second novel, Niko, is ready to grip readers, " writes Quentin Mills-Fenn.


About

Award-winning writer Dimitri Nasrallah is the author of two novels, Niko (Esplanade Editions, 2011) and Blackbodying (DC Books, 2005). His first novel won the Quebec Writers’ Federation McAuslan First Book Award and was named finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal. Since 2000, he has published numerous short stories in magazines and journals such as Maisonneuve, Hobarts Pulp, Matrix, and the Danforth Review. In 2006, his short fiction won the CBC Quebec Writing Competition. He has also contributed essays and non-fiction to The Globe & Mail , Montreal Gazette, Montreal Review of Books, the Danforth Review, and numerous other publications. A prolific and well-known music critic in Canada, he currently he edits the electronic music section for national music magazine Exclaim!.