Editing Stefano Benni (section)

==Biography==
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 (zine)|Cuore]]'' and ''[[Tango (Italian magazine)|Tango]]'', the monthly magazines ''[[Linus (magazine)|Linus]]'' and ''[[Il Mago (magazine)|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 – called "Pietro Longo=P2" – 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.<ref>[http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2006/stefano-benni?set_language=en Stefano Benni biography], International Literature Festival Berlin.</ref>

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)<!--These translations, if notable, should be listed after the original italian publication dates above: **''qwert'', (Slobbovian translation) (1999)
==Translations==
Catalan
* ''El bar sota la mar'', 2005
* ''Margherita Dolcevita'', 2006

Czech
* ''Časoskokan'', 2003
* ''Podivínsko'', 2003

Danish
* ''Terra!'', 1986
* ''To forskrækkede krigere'', 1988
* ''Baol : en rolig nat under regimet'', 1991
* ''Stjerneholdet'', 1994
* ''Elianto'', 1997
* ''En ganske særlig dag i april'', 1997
* ''Ånder'', 2002

Dutch
* ''De snelvoetige Achilles''

English 
* Margherita Dolce Vita (tran by Anthony Shugaar) 2005 Europa
* English translation of ''Achille piè veloce'' [FORTHCOMING]
* ''Marcello Jori: The Wonderful City of Extraordinary Artists'' (bilingual edition)

Finnish
* ''Baol''   	   	
* ''Elianto'' 
* ''Keplo'' 	  
* ''Achille piè veloce'' [FORTHCOMING]

French
* ''Terra!
* ''La dernière larme : nouvelles'', 1996
* ''Hélianthe'', 1997
* ''Le bar sous la mer'', 2001
* ''Achille piè veloce''
* ''La Compagnie des Célestins'', 2006

Galician

* ''A derradeira bágoa'', 2000

German
* ''Terra!'', 1985
* ''Die Bar auf dem Meeresgrund. Unterwassergeschichten'', 1992
* ''Baol. Die magischen Abenteuer einer fieberhaften Samstagnacht'', 1992
* ''Es gibt keine schlechten Menschen, sagte der Bär, wenn sie gut zubereitet sind'', 1999
* ''Die letzte Träne'', 2000
* ''Komische erschrockene Krieger'', 2000
* ''Geister'', 2001
* ''Der Zeitenspringer'', 2004
* ''Der schnellfüssige Achilles'', 2006
* ''Margherita Dolcevita'' [FORTHCOMING]

Lithuanian
* ''Baras po jūra''

Persian
*Il bar sotto il mare 
and many more..

Portuguese
* ''Terra!''
* ''Baol''

Spanish
* ''¡Tierra!''
* ''La cofradía de los celestinos''
* ''Baol''
* ''Cómicos guerreros despavoridos''
* ''La última lágrima''

Turkish
* Turkish translation of ''Il bar sotto il mare''
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