Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto was born on October 18,1975 and is an American writer, producer and director.
18 Facts About Nic Pizzolatto
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Nic Pizzolatto is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective.
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Nic Pizzolatto later enrolled in an MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas, and received the Lily Peter Fellowship for poetry and Walton fellowship in 2003.
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Nic Pizzolatto received an honorable mention from the Pushcart Prize, and his short story "Wanted Man" is included in Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
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Nic Pizzolatto moved to California to pursue a screenwriting career in the fall of 2010.
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Nic Pizzolatto listed several influences on the show's first season: philosophy books such as Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Eugene Thacker's In The Dust of This Planet, Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound, Jim Crawford's Confessions of an Antinatalist, and David Benatar's Better Never to Have Been.
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In late 2015, it was announced that Nic Pizzolatto had signed a new deal with HBO through 2018.
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In January 2020, FX announced that Nic Pizzolatto had signed an overall deal with the network, with the first project being the drama series Redeemer.
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In March 2023, it was reported that Nic Pizzolatto would be writing a Western series for Prime Video.
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Nic Pizzolatto adapted his 2010 novel Galveston for the film of the same name; however, he requested to be credited under the pseudonym Jim Hammett following director Melanie Laurent's contributions to the screenplay, despite not being formally engaged as a writer on the project, feeling the final script did not reflect his own.
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In December 2018, Nic Pizzolatto revealed that he had assisted Deadwood creator David Milch in writing the screenplay for the film adaptation.
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The first two short stories Nic Pizzolatto submitted sold simultaneously to The Atlantic.
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Nic Pizzolatto was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2004.
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Nic Pizzolatto received an honorable mention from the Pushcart Prize, and his story "Wanted Man" is included in Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
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Nic Pizzolatto's novel Galveston won third prize in the 2010 Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for best first novel.
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In 2015, Nic Pizzolatto was nominated for a Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama for True Detective.
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In 2015, Nic Pizzolatto was named British GQ Writer of the Year.
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Nic Pizzolatto got engaged to singer-songwriter Suzanne Santo in December 2021.