Niccolò Ammaniti

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. 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), which won the Strega Prize. The novel was adapted into a movie, once again directed by Gabriele Salvatores.

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

Audiobooks

Documentaries

Graphic novels

Essays

Radio dramas

Short stories in anthologies

TV series

Film adaptations