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Niccolò Ammaniti (Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ ammaˈniːti]; born 25 September 1966) is an Italian writer. He rose to international promince following the 2001 publication of I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura),[1], a crossover Nobel which won Italy's Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction in 2001,and was later made into a movie by oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores.
He becaof the Premio Strega on 2007 for As God Commands (firstly published under the title The Crossroads).me noted in 2001 with the
Biography
[edit]Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome and studied Biologic Sciences at Time University without completing his degree.[2] His first novel, Branchie (Gills), was published by Ediesse in 1994 (before its credits were bought by Einaudi in 1997.[3] Allegedly, it was stemming from an adaption of his never completed dissertation.[4][2] In 1999, Branchie was translated into a movie with the same title.[5] In 1995 Ammaniti published, together with his father Massimo, the essay Nel nome del figlio.[3] In 1996 he appeared with his sister in the low-budget movie Growing Artichokes in Mimongo.[2]
As a young Italian novelist, he wrote a short novel together with Luisa Brancaccio for the anthology Gioventù Cannibale by Daniele Brolli (1996).[2] In 1996 he also published the collection of short stories Fango.
In 1999 it was published the novel Steal You Away (Ti prendo e ti porto via),[2][3] and in 2001 he wrote the novel I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura), winning the 2001 Viareggio Prize. This novel was also adapted into a film version directed by Gabriele Salvatores in 2003,[2][3]
In 2006, he published As God Commands (Come Dio comanda), winning the Strega Prize. The novel was adapted into a movie, once again by Gabriele Salvatores.
In 2009, he published Let the Games Begin (Che la festa cominci). In 2010, he wrote Me and You (Io e te), which was later adapted into a movie, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The script, co-written, among others, by Bertolucci and Ammaniti, was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 2013 David di Donatello awards and at the 2013 Italian Golden Globe.[6][7]
In 2015, he published the novel Anna.
Worklist
[edit]- Branchie, Roma, Ediesse, 1994. ISBN 88-230-0135-8; Torino, Einaudi, 1997. ISBN 88-06-14354-9.
- Ti prendo e ti porto via, Milano, Mondadori, 1999. ISBN 88-04-46824-6.
- Io non ho paura, Torino, Einaudi, 2001. ISBN 88-06-14210-0.
- Come Dio comanda, Milano, Mondadori, 2006. ISBN 88-04-50279-7.
- Che la festa cominci, Torino, Einaudi, 2009. ISBN 978-88-06-19101-6.
- Io e te, Torino, Einaudi, 2010. ISBN 978-88-06-20680-2.
- Anna, Torino, Einaudi, 2015. ISBN 978-88-06-22775-3.
References
[edit]- ^ O'Grady, Desmond. "How to succeed without really failing". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "Niccolò Ammaniti". Strega.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 10 July 2008.
- ^ a b c d "Biography". NiccoloAmmaniti.it. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ (in Italian) Niccolò Ammaniti, "Ai miei lettori", Branchie, Torino, Giulio Einaudi editore, 1997.
- ^ "Branchie (1999)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Sei David per Giuseppe Tornatore trionfa ai David di Donatello 2013". Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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