JHUMPA LAHIRI聽was born in London and grew up in Rhode Island. Her debut collection of stories,聽Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel聽The Namesake聽was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. It was also named one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among others.聽聽聽
In December 2015, Lahiri published a nonfiction essay,聽"Teach Yourself Italian,"聽in The New Yorker about her experience learning Italian. In the article, she declared that she would now only write in Italian. That same year, she published her first book in Italian,聽In altre parole, in which she wrote,聽鈥淚 waited a very long time to really go away from the world I knew. Rome has given me a sense of belonging.鈥�聽In 2018, she published her first novel in Italian,聽Dove mi trovo. In 2019, she compiled, edited, and translated the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, consisting of 40 Italian short stories written by 40 Italian writers. She also recently published, to great acclaim, a volume of short stories entitled聽Racconti romani.
CARLO PETRINI聽is an Italian activist, writer, and founder of the international聽Slow Food聽movement.
Formerly a political activist in the聽communist聽Proletarian Unity Party聽(Partito di Unit脿 Proletaria; PdUP), in 1977, he began contributing culinary articles to the communist daily newspapers聽Il Manifesto听补苍诲听尝'鲍苍颈迟脿. In 1983, he helped create and develop the Italian non-profit food and wine association known as聽Arcigola.聽He founded Slow Food in 1986 and became the organization's president.
With the initial aim to聽鈥渄efend regional traditions, good food, gastronomic pleasure, and a slow pace of life,鈥�聽in almost three decades of history, the movement has evolved to embrace a comprehensive approach to food that recognizes the strong connections between plate, planet, people, politics, and culture. Today Slow Food represents a global movement involving thousands of projects and millions of people in over 160 countries.
Petrini is an editor for multiple publications at the publishing house聽Slow Food Editore. He has written weekly columns for聽La Stampa聽and is a regular contributor to聽La Repubblica. In October 2004, he founded the聽University of Gastronomic Sciences, a university dedicated to new gastronomists and innovators of聽sustainable food systems.
Petrini has received numerous awards and acknowledgments, including Communicator of the Year at the聽International Wine and Spirit Competition聽in聽London,聽the Sicco Mansholt Prize聽in the聽Netherlands, and聽the Eckart Witzigmann聽Science and Media Prize from聽Germany. In 2004 he was named one of聽罢颈尘别听magazine's Heroes of the Year.聽
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