 As a highly successful and appreciated literary team, Fruttero & Lucentini wrote books and worked in publishing, directing book series and magazines ("Il Mago", "Urania"), and editing fiction anthologies, for the Einaudi publishing house and, from 1961, for Mondadori.In 1972 Lucentini and Fruttero began writing for the Turin-based daily "La Stampa" (then directed by Alberto Ronchey), writing the column "L'Agenda di F. & L.", commenting with humour and irony on current facts; they also wrote for "L'Espresso" and "Epoca".The duo's first book was the poetry collection "L'idraulico non verrà", in 1971.