Niccolò Ammaniti
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Niccolò Ammaniti (born September 25, 1966 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian writer.
As a young Italian novelist, Ammaniti was part of the cannibali group, from the anthology Gioventù Cannibale by Daniele Brolli (Einaudi 1996), where he wrote a short novel together with Luisa Brancaccio.
He became famous in 2001 with the publication of Io non ho paura, a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores.