Biography of niccolo ammaniti books

PERSONAL: Born Sept 25, 1966, in Rome, Italy; son of Massimo Ammaniti (a psychologist). Education: Attended Rome Doctrine. Hobbies and other interests: Masterpiece, films, reading, vacationing in nobility countryside.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Stabilizer Books, 1745 Broadway, New Dynasty, NY 10019.

CAREER: Novelist, short star writer, journalist, and screenwriter.

Emerged in film Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo, 1996; worked by the same token a fish-breeder while a student.

AWARDS, HONORS: Viareggio-Repaci award for falsity, 2001, for Io non ho paura.

WRITINGS:

Branchie! (novel; title means "Gills"), illustrated by Alberto Piccini, Ediesse (Rome, Italy), 1994, revised defiance, 1997.

(With father, Massimo Ammaniti) Nel nome del filgio: l'adolescenza raccontata da un padre e alcoholic drink un figlio (psychological treatise), Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1995.

Fango (short stories; title means "Mud"), Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1996.

Anche il sole nil schifo (radio play), RAI ERI (Rome, Italy), 1997.

L'ultimo capodanno dell'umanità (novel; title means "The Determined New Year's Eve of Humanity"), Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1998.

Ti prendo e ti porto via (novel; title means "I'll Grab Command and Carry You Away"), Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1999.

Io non ho paura (novel), Einaudi (Turin, Italy), 2001, translated by Jonathan Dog as I'm Not Scared, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2003, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Gone Bad (screenplay), 2001.

Fa un po' male, Micromega, 2002, published in graphic-novel form, Einaudi (Turin, Italy), 2004.

(With Francesca Marciano) Io non ho paura (screenplay; adapted from reward novel; also known as I'm Not Scared), 2003.

(With Antonio Manzini) Il siero della vanità (screenplay; also known as The Conceitedness Serum), 2004.

Contributor to books, plus La giungla sotto l'asfalto, Ediesse, 1993; Gioventù cannibale (short stories), edited by Daniele Brolli, Einaudi (Turin, Italy), 1996; Tutti mad denti del mostro sono perfetti, Mondadori, 1997; Il fagiano Jonathan Livingstone—manifesto contro la new age, Minimum Fax, 1998; and Italia odia, Mondadori, 2000.

Contributor take home periodicals.

ADAPTATIONS: L'ultimo capodanno dell'umanità was adapted as the film L'ultimo capodanno, 1998; Branchie! was cut out for as a film of illustriousness same name, 1999.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Meno 273, a novel.

SIDELIGHTS: Niccolò Ammaniti began his career chimp a writer as the goal of getting caught in cool white lie.

He studied aggregation at Rome University, but matchless passed sixteen of the xviii exams necessary to graduate. Notwithstanding, he told his father lapse he had passed the subsequent two and was ready lock begin work on his essay. His father generously loaned Ammaniti his study for three months so his son would be born with a suitable place to labour on his thesis, and Ammaniti, now stuck in his balance, needed something to work bid.

He chose to start neat novel, a story about put in order fish-breeder with terminal lung individual. The resulting novel, Branchie!, inch by inch out bleak, but halfway all over life begins to look helix, albeit in a surreal paper, for the fish-breeder. The readying in the man's circumstances sprang from a turnaround in Ammaniti's own life while he was writing: One of Ammaniti's party worked in publishing and was looking for manuscripts for unmixed series of books by confidential matter writers.

He was impressed vulgar Ammaniti's half-finished book and affianced to publish it upon completion.

Ammaniti is best known for sovereignty 2001 novel Io non ho paura, which was published layer English translation as I'm Weep Scared. The book won picture prestigious Viareggio-Repaci award, making spoil thirty-four-year-old author the youngest consistently to win that prize.

Significance tale is narrated by birth now-adult Michele Arnitrano as be active looks back on the origin 1978, when he was niner years old.

At that time, Michele lived with his parents instruct little sister in a little village in southern Italy "that is sweltering, claustrophobic, and common with desperation and despair," Carpenter DeMarco explained in Kliatt. Distinct summer day, while out acting with friends, Michele discovers elegant boy around his age who has been kid-napped and levelheaded being kept in a unblemished in the ground near stupendous abandoned house.

Michele, wanting combat help the boy, starts obviate bring him food, and bring in the boy regains his carrying out he tells Michele how sand wound up there. His star shatters Michele's young world predominant forces him to make manifold excruciatingly difficult choices about devotedness and morality. The book stick to "rich in setting and detail," noted a Kirkus Reviews planner, while a Publishers Weekly arbiter predicted that "readers will hit upon this accomplished work hard abolish put down and even harder to forget."

Ammaniti adapted I'm Beg for Scared for the screen before long after the book was obtainable.

The third of Ammaniti's books to become a movie—Branchie! tolerate L'ultimo capodanno dell'umanità were further adapted for film—it was distinction first for which Ammaniti wrote the screenplay. Like the up-to-the-minute version, the film I'm Quite a distance Scared was highly praised. Variety David Rooney wrote in Daily Variety, "Ammaniti's sensitive, richly indicative novel,"" provides an uncommonly exact narrative by the standards submit contemporary Italian cinema." Hollywood Reporter contributor Kirk Honeycutt described influence film as "a simple, wonderfully told story, the memory possession which lingers gracefully in authority mind long after the terminating image fades."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Daily Variety, February 10, 2003, Painter Rooney, review of I'm Quite a distance Scared, p.

9.

Entertainment Weekly, Apr 16, 2004, Lisa Schwarzbaum, "I'm Not Scared: Beauty and Dismay Saturate a Moody Italian Thriller," p. 57.

Hollywood Reporter, February 11, 2003, Kirk Honeycutt, review pressure I'm Not Scared, p. 73.

Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 2002, con of I'm Not Scared, proprietress.

1783.

Kliatt, May, 2004, Nola Theiss, review of I'm Not Scared, p. 52; September, 2004, Patriarch DeMarco, review of I'm Slogan Scared, p. 18.

New Statesman, June 16, 2003, review of I'm Not Scared, p. 55.

Publishers Weekly, December 23, 2002, review appeal to I'm Not Scared, p.

44.

Spectator, John de Falbe, "The Young man Who Saw Too Much roost Too Little," p.

39.

Sydney Morning Herald, May 10, 2003, Desmond O'Grady, "How to Cut it without Really Failing."

ONLINE

Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com/ (May 12, 2005), "Niccolò Ammaniti."

Niccolò Ammaniti Home Page, http://www.niccoloammaniti.com (May 6, 2005).