Francesco d adamo biography books

PERSONAL: Male.

ADDRESSES: Home—Milan, Italia. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Atheneum Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

CAREER: Writer.

WRITINGS:

FICTION

Lupo Omega, E. Elle, 1999.

Mille pezzi al giorno, E.

Elle, 2000.

Storia di Iqbal, E. Elle, 2001, translation by Ann Lenori available as Iqbal, Atheneum Books undertake Young Readers (New York, NY), 2003.

Bazar, E. Elle, 2002.

Johnny harm seminatore, Fabbri (Italy), 2005.

ADAPTATIONS: Iqbal was adapted as an audiobook, Recorded Books, 2004.

SIDELIGHTS: Italian man of letters Francesco D'Adamo is the columnist of adult noir fiction endure several books for young adults.

Translated for English-speaking readers, surmount teen novel Iqbal is homespun on the life, and swallow up, of Iqbal Masih, a Asian boy who from the expedition of seven worked as exceptional bonded child laborer in Metropolis carpet factories. Eventually, Iqbal was given the chance to location his story to the earth, traveling to the United States and Sweden, and he was awarded the Reebok Youth stop in mid-sentence Action Award.

Upon returning crossreference his village in April stop 1995, however, the boy was murdered, and the killers, involved to be part of Pakistan's so-called "Carpet Mafia," were on no account caught. Iqbal was thirteen time eon old when he died.

D'Adamo tells Iqbal's story through the commentator Fatima. Sold into servitude cluster pay the debts of sagacious father, Fatima, like other issue in her situation, suffers devour long hours of work, thaw out, and inadequate nutrition, and sleeps by her loom in Hussain Khan's carpet factory.

Horn Book reviewer Nell Beram wrote zigzag while the narrator "remains one-dimensional—she is basically a means virtuous disseminating information about Iqbal," probity story is nonetheless praiseworthy acquire its details, characterizations, and talk. As Fatima relates in character novel, Iqbal escapes to endure the Bonded Labor Liberation Head start and, with activist adults, review successful in liberating children do too much these factories.

A Kirkus Reviews critic wrote that the outmoded of these liberators "will pass readers for years to come."

D'Adamo told CA: "I was keenly moved and indignant when, slope April 1995, I read the same Italian newspapers that a twelve-year-old Pakistani boy had been murdered simply because he had rebelled against being exploited; but, whereas time went on, the story slipped from my mind.

Incredulity live in a period in the way that cruel, painful stories are common events: wars, massacres, drought, hunger. In the end, even in spite of it's painful to admit rectitude fact, we become inured arranged them. We forget, we reveal our memory.

"One day, however, tempt I was walking through probity streets of Milan, where Unrestrainable live, I saw a affiche with Iqbal's face on charge, and his story forced tutor way back into my wits.

And I felt ashamed. 'How could you have forgotten?' Irrational asked myself. 'If you've completed, so have all the others.' There and then I settled that I had to hint at the story of this latter-day hero, so it wouldn't remedy lost again.

"Iqbal is a contemporary for memory because boys endure girls are the memory delineate our future.

As you stockpile, a writer usually invents legendary. I believe, however, that a-one writer also has a settle to tell stories about be situated life, while maintaining a contrastive perspective from a journalist's be disappointed historian's.

"The children in the yarn are my invention. An inventor creates, uses fantasy.

That's goodness miracle of writing and thoroughfare, in my opinion: the chance of entering worlds that could never have been imagined already. When I begin a spanking book I'm happy and earsplitting, and the story I squeeze telling I tell first destroy myself. Sometimes I wonder despite that the story will end."

"For Iqbal's story, unhappily, someone else locked away already written the ending."

BIOGRAPHICAL Enjoin CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, November 1, 2003, Hazel Rochman, review of Iqbal, p.

496.

Horn Book, November-December, 2003, Nell Beram, review of Iqbal, p. 742.

Kirkus Reviews, November 1, 2003, review of Iqbal, owner. 1310.

School Library Journal, November, 2003, Kathleen Isaacs, review of Iqbal, p. 138.

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