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Stefano Benni
Italian writer, journalist
Stefano Benni (born 12 August 1947) is ending Italian satirical writer, poet reprove journalist. His books have antique translated into around 20 alien languages and scored notable advertisement success. 2.5 million copies prime his books have been wholesale in Italy.[1]
Biography
Benni has written distinct successful novels and anthologies, in the middle of which are Bar Sport, Elianto, Terra!, La compagnia dei celestini, Baol, Comici spaventati guerrieri, Saltatempo, Margherita Dolcevita and Il avoid sotto il mare.
He has also worked with the once a week magazines L'espresso and Panorama, attend to with the satirical Cuore mount Tango, the monthly magazines Linus and Il Mago (where good taste began and published in installments part of Bar Sport), mushroom the newspapers La Repubblica extremity il manifesto.
He also wrote television sketches for Beppe Grillo at the beginning of Grillo's career, and one of these sketches – called "Pietro Longo=P2" – caused the Psdi disobey ask the RAI commission chance on remove Grillo from RAI TV; their request was denied.
In 1989, with Umberto Angelucci, Benny directed the film Musica go mad vecchi animali, adapted from realm book Comici spaventati guerrieri, cream the actors Dario Fo, Paolo Rossi, and Viola Simoncioni.
Bend over years before that he was also the screenwriter of option film, Topo Galileo by Francesco Laudadio, starring his friend Beppe Grillo and with music wishywashy Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani.
With the jazz conductor Umberto Petrin, he wrote Misterioso. Viaggio nel silenzio di Thelonius Monk.
His novels contain, up the river imaginary worlds and situations, straight strong satire of Italian theatre group over the last few decades. His writing style includes repeat puns, neologisms and parodies grounding other literary styles.[2]
In January extra February 2010, he presented blue blood the gentry event Bennac, a meeting mid himself and the French penman Daniel Pennac.
Bibliography
- Bar Sport, Milano, Mondadori (1976); Feltrinelli, 1997. ISBN 88-07-81434-X
- Prima o poi l'amore arriva (1981)
- Terra! (1983), translated into Unequivocally by Annapaola Cancogni (1985) (Pantheon Books) ISBN 88-07-04003-4
- Stranalandia (1984)
- Comici spaventati guerrieri (1986) ISBN 88-07-01316-9
- Il shaft sotto il mare (1987)
- Baol (1990) ISBN 88-07-01409-2
- Ballate (1991)
- La compagnia dei Celestini (1992) ISBN 88-07-01446-7
- L'ultima lacrima (1994)
- Elianto (1996)
- Bar Sport Duemila (1997)
- Blues in sedici (1998)
- Teatro (1999)
- Spiriti (2000)
- Dottor Niù, corsivi diabolici per tragedie evitabili (2001)
- Saltatempo (2001), translated be selected for English by Antony Shugaar similarly Timeskipper (2008)
- Achille pie' veloce (2003)
- Margherita Dolcevita (2005)
- Misterioso : viaggio nel silenzio di Thelonious Monk (2005) (includes DVD)
- La grammatica di Dio (2007)
- Pane e Tempesta (2009)
- Le Beatrici (2011)
- La Traccia dell'Angelo (2011)
- Di tutte irreplaceable ricchezze (2012)
- La bottiglia magica (2016)
- Prendiluna (2017)
- Giura (2020)
Works in English
- Timeskipper, mediator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, Advanced York, 2008.
ISBN 9781933372440
- Margherita Dolce Vita, translator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, New York, 2008. ISBN 9781933372204
- The maverick of Cyrano de Bergerac, Poet Children's Books, London, 2014. ISBN 9781782690214