STORIES FROM ITALY
with Jhumpa Lahiri

November 8, 2019 from 5pm to 7pm

Reiss Auditorium, Georgetown University

The Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Department of Italian and the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University invite you to a book presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri.

Jhumpa Lahiri is one of the most important voices of American literature. Her debut book, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, her first novel, The Namesake, became an instant classic, and all her subsequent works gained both critical and popular praise. In recent years, Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language, and started reading and writing only in Italian: a practice of estrangement and linguistic passion that gave birth to an auto-fiction memoir, a number of essays and stories, and the novel Dove mi trovo (2018).

In this talk, she will present and discuss her latest book Italian Short Stories, a landmark collection of stories – nearly half appearing in English for the first time –, in dialogue with Nicoletta Pireddu, Professor of Italian Literature at Georgetown University.