WRITER

Niccolò Ammaniti

1966 - Today

Niccolò Ammaniti

Niccolò Ammaniti (Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ ammaˈniːti]) is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands (also published under the title The Crossroads). He became noted in 2001 with the publication of I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura), a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niccolò Ammaniti has received more than 145,393 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Niccolò Ammaniti is the 5,511th most popular writer (down from 4,673rd in 2019), the 3,858th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,355th in 2019) and the 271st most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

150k
Page Views (PV)
45.98
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
29
Languages Editions (L)
3.66
Effective Languages (L*)
3.65
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Io non ho paura

2001

I'll Steal You Away

Bullying

Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out to the nearest big town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, Pietro reaches crisis point when his parents ignore his pleas for help and his schoolteacher turns her back on him - in desperation, he reaches out for attention, and finds instead a terrible revenge.Escape from Ischiano Scalo comes at a price. Life there will never be the same again.

20064 / 5

I'm Not Scared

Fiction

The international bestselling novel “of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read…a deft masterpiece with never a false note” (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn’t dare tell a soul. It is a secret that Michele doesn’t fully understand, yet it will force him to question everything and everyone around him, and will bring his innocent world toppling down. Both “an exquisite parable” and a tense thriller, I’m Not Scared has become a contemporary classic in Italian literature, read and celebrated the world over (Daily Telegraph, UK).

20034 / 5

Me and You

2012

I'll steal you away

Fiction

Growing up in an Italian village, Pietro is ignored by his parents and suffers the torment of bullies, but the arrival of an aging playboy, Graziano Biglia, helps Pietro realize that only by leaving home can he become the man he should be.

20064 / 5

Et je t'emmène

2001

Page views of Niccolò Ammanitis by language

Over the past year Niccolò Ammaniti has had the most page views in the Italian wikipedia edition with 101,199 views, followed by English (13,356), and Dutch (6,742). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (146.91%), Galician (88.55%), and Latin (86.77%)