Margherita Dolce Vita, translator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, New York, 2008.Timeskipper, translator Antony Shugaar, Europa Editions, New York, 2008.Misterioso : viaggio nel silenzio di Thelonious Monk (2005) (includes DVD).Saltatempo (2001), translated into English by Antony Shugaar as Timeskipper (2008).Dottor Niù, corsivi diabolici per tragedie evitabili (2001).Terra! (1983), translated into English by Annapaola Cancogni (1985) ( Pantheon Books).

In January and February 2010, he presented the event Bennac, a meeting between himself and the French writer Daniel Pennac. His writing style includes many puns, neologisms and parodies of other literary styles. His novels contain, within imaginary worlds and situations, a strong satire of Italian society over the last few decades. With the jazz musician Umberto Petrin, he wrote Misterioso. 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. 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. 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.

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. Biography īenni 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. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Italy.

His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. Stefano Benni (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist.

Elianto by Stefano Benni