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Niccolò Ammaniti

Niccolò Ammaniti

Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He has written six novels and two collections of short stories. His first novel, I’ll Steal You Away, was long listed for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He won the prestigious Italian Viareggio Literary Prize for Fiction for his best-selling novel I’m Not Scared, which has been translated into thirty-five languages. As God Commands received the Premio Strega Prize in 2007.

Praise

“A master storyteller.” —The Guardian

“Niccolò Ammaniti has been widely praised for his bone-chilling stories about adolescent boys on the verge of manhood. . . . In As God Commands, Ammaniti . . . visits familiar territory with his customary skill and bravado. . . . One can’t help but be enthralled by [Ammaniti’s] keen insights into the degradations that mar so many familial relationships.” —Elaine Margolin, The Denver Post

“As God Commands . . . is as gritty as it is suspenseful. . . . [Ammaniti has] immense gifts for pacing, psychological clarity, and singular detail. His steely, quick-moving prose suits his unsavory material—he’s in and out like a knife thrust.” —Regina Marler, Los Angeles Times