Niccolò Ammaniti

Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome on 25 September 1966. He studied Biological Sciences at university, and though he did not complete his degree,^[1] his first novel, Branchie (published by Ediesse in 1994, and then by Einaudi in 1997),^[3] drew from his unfinished dissertation.^[4][1] In 1999, Branchie was adapted into a movie with the same title.^[1] In 1995, Ammaniti and his father Massimo published the essay Nel nome del figlio.^[3] In 1996, 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 1996,^[1] as did a collection of short stories, Fango.^[5] Fango was shortlisted as a finalist work at the 1997 Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Bergamo.^[6] In 1999, Ammaniti published the novel Steal You Away (Ti prendo e ti porto via),^[1][3] 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.^[1][3]

In 2006, 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 2009, he published Let the Games Begin (Che la festa cominci),^[9] and in 2010 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 2013 David di Donatello awards and at the 2013 Italian Golden Globe.^[10][11]

In 2015, 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 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.^[14] 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.^[15]

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.^[9]
• 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).^[16]
• Ammaniti, Niccolò (Creator and Director) (2021). Anna (Television production) (in Italian).

• 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).