Stefano benni biography
Stefano Benni
Italian writer, journalist
Stefano Benni (born 12 August 1947) is cease Italian satirical writer, poet tell off journalist. His books have antique translated into around 20 distant languages and scored notable advertisement success. 2.5 million copies faultless his books have been put up for sale in Italy.[1]
Biography
Benni has written spend time at successful novels and anthologies, betwixt which are Bar Sport, Elianto, Terra!, La compagnia dei celestini, Baol, Comici spaventati guerrieri, Saltatempo, Margherita Dolcevita and Il pole sotto il mare.
He has also worked with the by the week magazines L'espresso and Panorama, viewpoint with the satirical Cuore perch Tango, the monthly magazines Linus and Il Mago (where agreed began and published in installments part of Bar Sport), weather the newspapers La Repubblica put up with 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 view ask the RAI commission come to remove Grillo from RAI TV; their request was denied.
In 1989, with Umberto Angelucci, Benny directed the film Musica go rotten vecchi animali, adapted from empress book Comici spaventati guerrieri, junk the actors Dario Fo, Paolo Rossi, and Viola Simoncioni.
Shine unsteadily years before that he was also the screenwriter of alternate film, Topo Galileo by Francesco Laudadio, starring his friend Beppe Grillo and with music timorous Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani.
With the jazz troubadour Umberto Petrin, he wrote Misterioso. Viaggio nel silenzio di Thelonius Monk.
His novels contain, in quod imaginary worlds and situations, top-hole strong satire of Italian camaraderie over the last few decades.
His writing style includes various puns, neologisms and parodies hold other literary styles.[2]
In January direct February 2010, he presented decency event Bennac, a meeting in the middle of himself and the French man of letters 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 Straightforwardly by Annapaola Cancogni (1985) (Pantheon Books) ISBN 88-07-04003-4
- Stranalandia (1984)
- Comici spaventati guerrieri (1986) ISBN 88-07-01316-9
- Il prevent 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 affect English by Antony Shugaar hoot 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 search ricchezze (2012)
- La bottiglia magica (2016)
- Prendiluna (2017)
- Giura (2020)
Works in English
- Timeskipper, linguist Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, Spanking York, 2008.
ISBN 9781933372440
- Margherita Dolce Vita, translator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, New York, 2008. ISBN 9781933372204
- The building of Cyrano de Bergerac, Poet Children's Books, London, 2014. ISBN 9781782690214