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Italian writer (born 1966)

Niccolò Ammaniti
Ammaniti in 2010
Born	(1966-09-25) 25 September 1966 (age 58) Rome, Italy
Notable awards	Viareggio Prize 2001 I'm Not Scared 2023 La vita intima Strega Prize 2007 ''As God Commands Premio Strega
Spouse	Lorenza Indovina (m. 2005)
Website
Official website

Niccolò Ammaniti (Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ ammaˈniːti]) is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands (also published under the title The Crossroads). He became noted in 2001 with the publication of I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura), a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores.

Biography

Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome on 25 September 1966. He studied Biological Sciences at university, and though he did not complete his degree, his first novel, Branchie (published by Ediesse in 1994, and then by Einaudi in 1997), drew from his unfinished dissertation. In 1999, Branchie was adapted into a movie with the same title. In 1995, Ammaniti and his father Massimo published the essay Nel nome del figlio. In 1996, he appeared with his sister in the low-budget movie Growing Artichokes in Mimongo.

A short novel written with Luisa Brancaccio for the anthology Gioventù Cannibale edited by Daniele Brolli came out in 1996, as did a collection of short stories, Fango. Fango was shortlisted as a finalist work at the 1997 Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Bergamo. In 1999, Ammaniti published the novel Steal You Away (Ti prendo e ti porto via), followed by the 2001 I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura), which won the 2001 Viareggio Prize and was adapted into a film directed by Gabriele Salvatores in 2003.

In 2006, he published As God Commands (Come Dio comanda), which won the Strega Prize. The novel was adapted into a movie, once again directed by Gabriele Salvatores. In 2009, he published Let the Games Begin (Che la festa cominci), and in 2010 Me and You (Io e te), which was later adapted into a movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The script, co-written by Bertolucci, Ammaniti, and others, was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 2013 David di Donatello awards and at the 2013 Italian Golden Globe.

In 2015, he published the novel Anna, which six years later was adapted into a TV show aired on Sky Italia and directed by Ammaniti himself. His directorial debut came in 2017 with the TV series The Miracle, released one year later, a project he both created and co-directed alongside Francesco Munzi and Lucio Pellegrini. In 2023, 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.

Works

Novels

Ammaniti, Niccolò (1994). Branchie (in Italian). Rome: Ediesse. ISBN 88-230-0135-8.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (1996). Fango (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-40667-4.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (1999). Ti prendo e ti porto via [Steal You Away] (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-46824-6.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2001). Io non ho paura [I'm Not Scared] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 88-06-14210-0.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2006). Come Dio comanda [As God Commands] (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-50279-7.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2009). Che la festa cominci [Let the Games Begin] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-19101-6.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2010). Io e te [Me and You] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-20680-2.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2015). Anna [Anna] (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-22775-3.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2023). La vita intima (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-25515-2.

Audiobooks

Ammaniti, Niccolò; Manzini, Antonio (2008). Giochiamo? Due racconti letti dagli autori (CD) (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 978-88-04-58405-6.

Documentaries

Ammaniti, Niccolò (director) (2014). The Good Life (Motion picture) (in Italian). ISBN 978-88-07-74125-8.

Graphic novels

Ammaniti, Niccolò (w), Fabbri, Davidé (a). Fa un po' male (2004). Einaudi, ISBN 8806168150, (in Italian).

Essays

Ammaniti, Massimo; Ammaniti, Niccolò (1995). Nel nome del figlio. L'adolescenza raccontata da un padre e da un figlio (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-39339-4.

Radio dramas

Ammaniti, Niccolò (1997). Anche il sole fa schifo (Radio broadcast) (in Italian). Rai-Eri. ISBN 88-397-0987-8.

Short stories in anthologies

Ammaniti, Niccolò (1993). "La figlia di Siva". La giungla sotto l'asfalto (in Italian). Ediesse.
Ammaniti, Niccolò; Brancaccio, Luisa (1996). "Seratina". In Brolli, Daniele (ed.). Gioventù cannibale (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 88-06-14268-2.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (1997). "Alba tragica". In Lippi, Giuseppe; Evangelisti, Valerio (eds.). Tutti i denti del mostro sono perfetti (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-43806-1.
Ammaniti, Niccolò; D'Alessandro, Jaime (1998). "Enchanted Music & Light Records". Il fagiano Jonathan Livingston. Manifesto contro la new age (in Italian). Rome: Minimum Fax. ISBN 88-86568-53-3.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2000). "L'amico di Jeffrey Dahmer è l'amico mio". In Brolli, Daniele (ed.). Italia odia (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-06-14268-2.
Ammaniti, Niccolò (2005). "Sei il mio tesoro". In De Cataldo, Giancarlo (ed.). Crimini (in Italian). Turin: Einaudi. ISBN 88-06-17576-9.

TV series

Ammaniti, Niccolò (Creator); Ammaniti, Niccolò (Director); Munzi, Francesco (Director); Pellegrini, Lucio (Director) (2018). Il miracolo [The Miracle] (Television production) (in Italian).
Ammaniti, Niccolò (Creator and Director) (2021). Anna (Television production) (in Italian).

Film adaptations

Risi, Marco (Director) (1998). Kaputt Mundi (in Italian).
Ranieri Martinotti, Francesco (Director) (1999). Branchie (in Italian).
Salvatores, Gabriele (Director) (2003). I'm Not Scared (in Italian).
Infascelli, Alex (Director) (2004). The Vanity Serum (in Italian).
Salvatores, Gabriele (Director) (2008). As God Commands (in Italian).
Bertolucci, Bernardo (Director) (2012). Me and You (in Italian).

References

^ "Niccolò Ammaniti". Strega.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 10 July 2008.
O'Grady, Desmond (10 May 2003). "How to succeed without really failing". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ "Biography". NiccoloAmmaniti.it. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
(in Italian) Niccolò Ammaniti, "Ai miei lettori", Branchie, Torino, Giulio Einaudi editore, 1997.
"Fango / Niccolò Ammaniti". OPAC SBN (in Italian). Retrieved 6 April 2024.
"Raccolta Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Bergamo". Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai (in Italian). Retrieved 6 April 2024.
"Come Dio comanda : romanzo / Niccolò Ammaniti". OPAC SBN (in Italian). Retrieved 6 April 2024.
"2007. Niccolò Ammaniti". Strega Prize (in Italian). Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
^ Carlino, Maria Luisa; Casini, Silvia; Scipioni, Chiara (2014). "L'esordio narrativo di Niccolò Ammaniti" (PDF). Oblique (in Italian).
Fumarola, Silvia (15 June 2013). "Sei David per Giuseppe Tornatoretrionfa ai David di Donatello 2013". la Repubblica. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
"Globi d'Oro 2013: tutte le nomination". Il Cinema Italiano (in Italian). 12 June 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
"Anna / Niccolò Ammaniti". OPAC SBN (in Italian). Retrieved 5 April 2024.
"'Anna', la serie di Niccolò Ammaniti su Sky dal 23 aprile: il TRAILER". Sky TG24 (in Italian). 17 March 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
D'Amico, Valentina (18 May 2017). "Sky Italia, Wildside e Niccolò Ammaniti per "The Miracle", serie tv sulle lacrime della Madonna". Movieplayer.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
Paloscia, Fulvio (30 July 2023). "Niccolò Ammaniti vince il Premio Viareggio". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 7 April 2024.
Vivarelli, Nick (18 May 2017). "Sky Italia, Wildside to Produce 'The Miracle' Series for International Market (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

External links

(in Italian) Official website
Niccolò Ammaniti at IMDb

v t e Recipients of the Strega Prize
1947–1950	1947 Ennio Flaiano 1948 Vincenzo Cardarelli 1949 Giovanni Battista Angioletti 1950 Cesare Pavese
1951–1975	1951 Corrado Alvaro 1952 Alberto Moravia 1953 Massimo Bontempelli 1954 Mario Soldati 1955 Giovanni Comisso 1956 Giorgio Bassani 1957 Elsa Morante 1958 Dino Buzzati 1959 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1960 Carlo Cassola 1961 Raffaele La Capria 1962 Mario Tobino 1963 Natalia Ginzburg 1964 Giovanni Arpino 1965 Paolo Volponi 1966 Michele Prisco 1967 Anna Maria Ortese 1968 Alberto Bevilacqua 1969 Lalla Romano 1970 Guido Piovene 1971 Raffaello Brignetti 1972 Giuseppe Dessì 1973 Manlio Cancogni 1974 Guglielmo Petroni 1975 Tommaso Landolfi
1976–2000	1976 Fausta Cialente 1977 Fulvio Tomizza 1978 Ferdinando Camon 1979 Primo Levi 1980 Vittorio Gorresio 1981 Umberto Eco 1982 Goffredo Parise 1983 Mario Pomilio 1984 Pietro Citati 1985 Carlo Sgorlon 1986 Maria Bellonci 1987 Stanislao Nievo 1988 Gesualdo Bufalino 1989 Giuseppe Pontiggia 1990 Sebastiano Vassalli 1991 Paolo Volponi 1992 Vincenzo Consolo 1993 Domenico Rea 1994 Giorgio Montefoschi 1995 Mariateresa Di Lascia 1996 Alessandro Barbero 1997 Claudio Magris 1998 Enzo Siciliano 1999 Dacia Maraini 2000 Ernesto Ferrero
2001–present	2001 Domenico Starnone 2002 Margaret Mazzantini 2003 Melania Gaia Mazzucco 2004 Ugo Riccarelli 2005 Maurizio Maggiani 2006 Sandro Veronesi 2007 Niccolò Ammaniti 2008 Paolo Giordano 2009 Tiziano Scarpa 2010 Antonio Pennacchi 2011 Edoardo Nesi 2012 Alessandro Piperno 2013 Walter Siti 2014 Francesco Piccolo 2015 Nicola Lagioia 2016 Edoardo Albinati 2017 Paolo Cognetti 2018 Helena Janeczek 2019 Antonio Scurati 2020 Sandro Veronesi 2021 Emanuele Trevi 2022 Mario Desiati

v t e Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino Foschini (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) Guelfo Civinini (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938) Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s	Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)

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