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Italian writer (born )

Niccolò Ammaniti (Italian pronunciation:[nikkoˈlɔammaˈniːti]) is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in for As God Commands (also published under the title The Crossroads). He became noted in with the publication of I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura),^[2] a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores.

Biography

Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome on 25 September He studied Biological Sciences at university, and though he did not complete his degree,^[1] his first novel, Branchie (published by Ediesse in , and then by Einaudi in ),^[3] drew from his unfinished dissertation.^[4][1] In , Branchie was adapted into a movie with the same title.^[1] In , Ammaniti and his father Massimo published the essay Nel nome del figlio.^[3] In , he appeared with his sister in the low-budget movie Growing Artichokes in Mimongo.^[1]

A short novel written with Luisa Brancaccio for the anthology Gioventù Cannibale edited by Daniele Brolli came out in ,^[1] as did a collection of short stories, Fango.^[5]Fango was shortlisted as a finalist work at the Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Bergamo.^[6] In , Ammaniti published the novel Steal You Away (Ti prendo e ti porto via),^[1][3] followed by the I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura), which won the Viareggio Prize and was adapted into a film directed by Gabriele Salvatores in ^[1][3]

In , he published As God Commands (Come Dio comanda),^[7] which won the Strega Prize.^[8] The novel was adapted into a movie, once again directed by Gabriele Salvatores.^[9] In , he published Let the Games Begin (Che la festa cominci),^[9] and in Me and You (Io e te), which was later adapted into a movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.^[9] The script, co-written by Bertolucci, Ammaniti, and others, was nominated for Best Screenplay at the David di Donatello awards and at the Italian Golden Globe.^[10][11]

In , he published the novel Anna,^[12] which six years later was adapted into a TV show aired on Sky Italia and directed by Ammaniti himself.^[13] His directorial debut came in with the TV series The Miracle, released one year later, a project he both created and co-directed alongside Francesco Munzi and Lucio Pellegrini.^[14] In , eight years since his last novel, he published La vita intima, winning the Viareggio Prize again, 22 years after his initial recognition with I'm Not Scared.^[15]

Works

Novels

• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Branchie (in Italian). Rome: Ediesse. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Fango (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Ti prendo e ti porto via [Steal You Away] (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Io non ho paura [I'm Not Scared] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Come Dio comanda [As God Commands] (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Che la festa cominci [Let the Games Begin] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Io e te [Me and You] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Anna [Anna] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). La vita intima (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.

Audiobooks

• Ammaniti, Niccolò; Manzini, Antonio (). Giochiamo? Due racconti letti dagli autori (CD) (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.

Documentaries

• Ammaniti, Niccolò (director) (). The Good Life (Motion picture) (in Italian). ISBN&#;.

Graphic novels

Essays

• Ammaniti, Massimo; Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Nel nome del figlio. L'adolescenza raccontata da un padre e da un figlio (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.

Radio dramas

• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). Anche il sole fa schifo (Radio broadcast) (in Italian). Rai-Eri. ISBN&#;.

Short stories in anthologies

• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). "La figlia di Siva". La giungla sotto l'asfalto (in Italian). Ediesse.^[9]
• Ammaniti, Niccolò; Brancaccio, Luisa (). "Seratina". In Brolli, Daniele (ed.). Gioventù cannibale (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). "Alba tragica". In Lippi, Giuseppe; Evangelisti, Valerio (eds.). Tutti i denti del mostro sono perfetti (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò; D'Alessandro, Jaime (). "Enchanted Music & Light Records". Il fagiano Jonathan Livingston. Manifesto contro la new age (in Italian). Rome: Minimum Fax. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). "L'amico di Jeffrey Dahmer è l'amico mio". In Brolli, Daniele (ed.). Italia odia (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN&#;.
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (). "Sei il mio tesoro". In De Cataldo, Giancarlo (ed.). Crimini (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN&#;.

TV series

• Ammaniti, Niccolò (Creator); Ammaniti, Niccolò (Director); Munzi, Francesco (Director); Pellegrini, Lucio (Director) (). Il miracolo [The Miracle] (Television production) (in Italian).^[16]
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (Creator and Director) (). Anna (Television production) (in Italian).

Film adaptations

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