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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

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  • 528

    Pages
  • 9780241299838

    ISBN
  • 160 mm

    Width
  • 242 mm

    Height
  • 1200 gram

    Weight
  • HARDCOVER

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  • 7 MARCH 2019

    Publish Date
  • 32 mm

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    Description

    'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' TelegraphThis landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century.Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events.This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside...  Read More

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    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age.

    Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989. She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She took up a fellowship at Provincetowns Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998).

    In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin America. Lahiri currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005.

    Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Much of her short fiction concerns the lives of Indian-Americans, particularly Bengalis.

    She received the following awards, among others:
    1999 - PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for Interpreter of Maladies;
    2000 - The New Yorkers Best Debut of the Year for Interpreter of Maladies;
    2000 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut Interpreter of Maladies

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