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Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He is the author of six novels translated into English and two short story collections. Several of his novels have been adapted for film including Steal You Away, which was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Crossroads, winner of the Preimo Strega Prize 2007, and the international bestseller I'm Not Scared, which won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages.

'Ammaniti sets a new standard in post-apocalyptic fiction . . . This story of children running whild in Sicily brilliantly manipulates the usual models even as it transcends their limits . . . in the midst of wonderfully detailed disorder, one girl name Anna struggles to survive, fighting off feral dogs and crazed children and enduring one of recent literature's most nightmarish visions of hell on earth'

Guardian 'One of Italy's foremost literary talents . . . Anna combines the wayword fantasy of J.G. Ballard with comic-strip adventure' Big Issue 'Brave and uncompromising . . . A brutal but moving post-apocalyptic tale set in a world where adults have all been wiped out . . . written with such heart and compassion for the plight of the characters that you can't help but get sucked in and root for them' Big Issue 'Ammaniti won the Italian Strega Prize for I'm Not Scared, and Anna has the same taut narrative, with straight-from-the-bow suspense, but its mark is philosophical . . . concerned not only with the will to live but also what makes us alive' Irish Times 'Anna has pretty much everything you could hope for from a post-apocalyptic picaresque adventure story' The Herald