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.

Niko shortlisted for QWF award

I'm thrilled to report that Niko is a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

Other nominees in the category are Madeleine Thien for her second novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, and David Homel for his fifth novel, Midway.

Full story in the Montreal Gazette here.