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Stefano Benni
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Benni has written many successful novels and anthologies, among which are Bar Sport, Elianto, Terra!, La compagnia dei celestini, Baol, Comici spaventati guerrieri, Saltatempo, Margherita Dolcevita and Il bar sotto il mare.He has also worked with the weekly magazines L'espresso and Panorama, and with the satirical Cuore and Tango, the monthly magazines Linus and Il Mago (where he began and published in installments part of Bar Sport), and the newspapers La Repubblica and il manifesto.He also wrote television sketches for Beppe Grillo at the beginning of Grillo's career, and one of these sketches â called "Pietro Longo=P2" â caused the Psdi to ask the RAI commission to remove Grillo from RAI TV; their request was denied.In 1989, with Umberto Angelucci, Benni directed the film Musica per vecchi animali, adapted from his book Comici spaventati guerrieri, with the actors Dario Fo, Paolo Rossi, and Viola Simoncioni. Two years before that he was also the screenwriter of another film, Topo Galileo by Francesco Laudadio, starring his friend Beppe Grillo and with music by Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani.With the jazz musician Umberto Petrin, he wrote Misterioso. Viaggio nel silenzio di Thelonius Monk.His novels contain, within imaginary worlds and situations, a strong satire of Italian society over the last few decades. His writing style includes many puns, neologisms and parodies of other literary styles.Stefano Benni biography, International Literature Festival Berlin.In January and February 2010, he presented the event Bennac, a meeting between himself and the French writer 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 English by Annapaola Cancogni (1985) (Pantheon Books) ISBN 88-07-04003-4
- Stranalandia (1984)
- Comici spaventati guerrieri (1986) ISBN 88-07-01316-9
- Il bar 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 into English by Antony Shugaar as 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 le ricchezze (2012)
- La bottiglia magica (2016)
- Prendiluna (2017)
- Giura (2020)
Works in English
- Timeskipper, translator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, New York, 2008. {{ISBN|9781933372440}}
- Margherita Dolce Vita, translator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, New York, 2008. {{ISBN|9781933372204}}
- The story of Cyrano de Bergerac, Pushkin Children's Books, London, 2014. {{ISBN|9781782690214}}
References
{{Reflist}}External links
- Official website (Italian)
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080820113520weblink">"The Story of First-Aid and Beauty Case"
- {{IMDb name|0072148}}
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