Yambo (writer)

Enrico Novelli, writing as Yambo (5 June 1876 – 30 December 1943), was an Italian writer, journalist, and filmmaker.

Yambo
Born	Enrico Novelli (1876-06-05)5 June 1876 Pisa, Italy
Died	30 December 1943(1943-12-30) (aged 67) Florence, Italy

Enrico Novelli was born on 5 June 1876 in Pisa, the son of Ermete Novelli.^[1][2] He worked in newspapers, beginning at La Sera (possibly Corriere della Sera) in Milan.^[1] Between 1927 and 1942, he ran a paper in Florence called Il nuovo giornale di Firenze.^[3]

Novelli wrote children's books under the pen name "Yambo". Le avventure di Ciuffettino (1902) is his best known work.^[3][4]

He died on 30 December 1943 in Florence.^[2]