Nicholas Austin [5] “Nick” Pizzolatto ( born Nicholas Austin “Nic” Pizzolatto ; born October 18, 1975 , New Orleans ) is an American novelist, screenwriter and producer. Best known as the author and executive producer of the American television series True Detective .
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| Nic Pizzolatto | |
| Birth name | Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto |
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| Occupation | prose writer , screenwriter , television producer |
| Years of creativity | 2003 - present time |
| Direction | drama , neonoir , detective crime south gothic |
| Genre | novel , script , story |
| Language of Works | English |
| Debut | the story of Ghost-Birds (2003) |
| Awards | U.S. Scriptwriters Guild Award (2015 - twice) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Works
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Nicholas ("Nic") Pizzolatto was born in 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the family of lawyer Nick (Nick) Pizzolatto Jr., a descendant of Italian immigrants, and former school teacher Sheila Pizzolatto (nee Sierra). The family had three more children.
According to Nick himself, his childhood, even after moving to the rural suburb of Lake Charles in the same place, in Louisiana, was not simple - a poor working Catholic family surrounded by poor, drinking, aggressive and rogue neighbors. Fanatical religiosity, universal illiteracy and violence in everyday life - a wild place, I had to learn to fend for myself. I wanted to break out of this situation. Nick moves away from his parents; graduates from St. Louis Catholic High School in 1993, leaves home and never returns to Lake Charles.
Growing up without books and other intellectual support, but surrounded by nature, Nick became interested in art. He gained knowledge at three educational institutions: the University of Arkansas, McNeese State University and the University of Louisiana. After successfully completing his studies, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , then at the University of Chicago and DePauw.
As a teacher, he wrote two books and left the teaching field in 2010. The first novel of the future screenwriter was Galveston . The American publisher Skribner in New York appreciated the writer's work and published a book. In 2011, the American television company AMC proposed writing a story for two episodes of the crime drama "Murder".
In 2012, he created a gloomy and hopeless story about two servants of the law - “ The Real Detective ” [6] . The right to use the script was bought by the HBO television channel, which subsequently appointed Nick as the executive producer of the future television series-anthology [7] . The series, released at the beginning of 2014 , was widely recognized by both viewers and critics, receiving a number of prestigious awards, and the channel extended “True Detective” for the second season, which premiered in the summer of 2015 . Nick Pizzolatto again wrote the scripts for all the series, retaining the production functions as well [8] .
Works
- Galveston (novel) - New York: Scribner, 2010
- “ Murder ”, screenwriter of 2 episodes, 2011
- " True Detective, " an episode of the series on the American television channel HBO. January 2014
- The Magnificent Seven , 2016
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1052621260 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ LIBRIS
- ↑ CONOR
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2018.
- ↑ DePauw University
- ↑ Nick Pizzolatto’s “Real Detective” Script (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 14, 2014. Archived March 15, 2014.
- ↑ HBO Picks Up Matthew-Woody Series 'True Detective' With Eight-Episode Order . Deadline PMC (April 30, 2012). Date of treatment July 5, 2014.
- ↑ 'True Detective' Season 2: HBO Series Gets A Clean Slate, But Has It Learned From Its Mistakes?