Luigi Malerba (pseudonym Luigi Banardi) - journalist, screenwriter and writer, laureate of many national and international literary prizes, author of twenty-seven works - is rightfully considered one of the pillars of world literature of the 20th century, his books have been translated into almost all languages ​ ​ and are constantly reprinted, since the problems that he raises are close and understandable to any person in the West and in the East.