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Niccolo Ammaniti
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Niccolo
Ammaniti |
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September 25, 1966
Rome, Italy |
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Writer |
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Biography
Niccolò Ammaniti studied Biological Sciences at university, and though he did not complete his degree, his first novel, Branchie 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, followed by the 2001 I'm Not Scared, 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, 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, and in 2010 Me and You, 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 Ammanity 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.
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