[2] Among many other job experiences, before dedicating herself to writing she was a multi property seller, a fiscal operator, an administrative manager in a thermoelectrical centre and even a nighttime doorkeeper.

First imagined and created as a blog,this was a satire on the telemarketing call centre of an important multinational, Kirby Company, highlighting the economic exploitation and psychological manipulation of its workers.

It was also filmed by Paolo Virzì, and released in 2008 as Tutta la vita davanti.,[1] with Isabella Ragonese, Sabrina Ferilli, Elio Germano, Valerio Mastandrea e Massimo Ghini.

In 2011 Maurizio Zanolla, a free climber, dedicated a climbing path he opened together with Bruno Fonnesu to Accabadora in Gutturu Cardaxius.

On 7 December 2020 Michela Murgia was invited to open, with an introductory speech, the premiere of the Teatro la Scala in Milan, which took place behind closed doors due to the Covid emergency and broadcast on television.

On 6 May 2023, in an interview with the Corriere della Sera, she declared that she had a few months to live due to a form of stage four renal adenocarcinoma with metastases to the lungs, bone tissue and brain.

In November of the same year, at the Giovanni XXIII Congress Center in Bergamo, a stage reading of her text Caterina da Siena, written with Elena Maffioletti and performed by Arianna Scommegna, was carried out under the direction of Serena Sinigaglia.

Quasi Grazia, written by Marcello Fois and produced by the Teatro di Sardegna directed by Veronica Cruciani, together with Marco Brinzi, Valentino Mannias and Lia Careddu.

Since 2018 she has staged two theater productions: Instructions to become fascists, taken from his book of the same name and accompanied by the music of Frantziscu Medda Arrogalla, and Dove sono le donne (Where are the women), a monologue on the absence of gender representation in the institutions of politics and culture and the judiciary.

In the regional elections of February 2014,[6] she stood as a candidate as part of the Possible Sardinia coalition,[7] which aimed to achieve Sardinian independence via the ballot, similar to the Catalan and the Scottish referendums of 2014.

[8] In the 2019 European elections she supported the Left, a list that includes Sinistra Italiana, Rifondazione Comunista, L'Altra Europa con Tsipras, Convergenza Socialista, Partito del Sud(Party of the South) and Transform!Italia.

In July 2023, she married actor and director Lorenzo Terenzi (born 1988) in articulo mortis, also as an act of denunciation of the shortcomings of Italian legislation on de facto couples.

[3] She was proud of her extensive library; furthermore, she was a huge fan of J. R. R. Tolkien's work and K-pop culture, in particular the South Korean musical group BTS.

[3] In February 2019 Michela Murgia was sentenced to pay the sum of 18,000 euros plus interest and legal costs, for breach of contract with the publishing house Il Maestrale.