Without doubt the most popular live writer in Italy. During his youth he wrote for communist media and directed international jazz cycles, one of his great passions. Shortly after he created, together with Italo Calvino, the Pluriversity of the imagination, a live theater and reading school that still runs through Italy. Benni tackles from the fiction the scathing satire of Italian society, supported by formulas such as caricature and gender permeability. Many of his books have been taken to the big screen in neighboring countries, as well as to large theaters around the world. Recently he rejected the prestigious National Vittorio de Sica Prize in protest against the cuts to the culture and education of the government of Matteo Renzi. Margarita Dolcevita, one of her most memorable and beloved characters, also rebels against the injustices that surround her, and accompanies Benni in the most imaginative, tender and shrewd critique of the capitalist and anti-ecological world.