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]

Citations

1. Horn, Maurice, ed. (1999). The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons (2nd ed.). Chelsea House. p. 513. ISBN 0-7910-4855-1. OCLC 39756696.
2. Stewart, John, ed. (1994). Italian Film: A Who's Who. McFarland & Company. p. 320. ISBN 0-89950-761-1. OCLC 29224578.
3. Drago, Marco; Boroli, Andrea, eds. (1997). L'enciclopedia della letteratura. Istituto Geografico de Agostini. p. 698. ISBN 88-415-3976-3. OCLC 39195739.
4. Hainsworth, Peter; Robey, David, eds. (2002). The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 640. ISBN 0-19-818332-1. OCLC 48649284.

Further reading

• Brioni, Simone; Comberiati, Daniele (2019). "Explorations and the Creation of a National Identity". Italian Science Fiction. Springer. pp. 31–63. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19326-3_2. ISBN 978-3-030-19325-6.
• Lotti, Denis (31 December 2017). "Yambo on the moon of Verne and Méliès: From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario". In Catanese, Rossella (ed.). Futurist Cinema. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 133–146. doi:10.1515/9789048525232-011. ISBN 978-90-485-2523-2.
• Toppano, Michela (15 July 2013). "La réécriture du mythe de l'Atlantide chez Yambo ou la pédagogie de l'émerveillement". Cahiers d'études romanes (27): 323–343. doi:10.4000/etudesromanes.4134. ISSN 0180-684X.