Yambo (writer)

Yambo
BornEnrico Novelli
(1876-06-05)5 June 1876
Pisa, Italy
Died30 December 1943(1943-12-30) (aged 67)
Florence, Italy

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

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]

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