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Alessandro Barricco
Is an author of novels translated into many languages: Lands of Glass (1991), Ocean Sea (1993), Silk (1996), City (1999), Without Blood (2002) published in Italian by Rizzoli: Questa storia(Fandango 2005), Emmaus (Feltrinelli 2009), Mr Gwyn (Feltrinelli 2011), Tre volte all’alba (Feltrinelli 2012).
He has also written screenplays and numerous essays: Il genio in fuga, Due saggi sul teatro musicale di Giachino Rossini (Il melangolo 1988, Einaudi 1997), Next. Piccolo libro sulla globalizzazione e il mondo che verrà, (Feltrinelli 2002), I Barbari. Saggio sulla mutazione(Fandango 2006 – Feltrinelli 2008). He was the host and author of highly successful television programs and plays and in 2004, in Turin, he founded the Scuola Holden for Storytelling & Performing Arts.
In the same year, he published Novecento. Un monologo on which Giuseppe Tornatore based his film The Legend of 1900. He also writes for the daily La Repubblica.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Selected by “The New Yorker” as one of the writers who will leave their mark on the new century and pronounced Best Fiction Debut of the Year by juries made up of critics and members of the public – in the U.S. as in India - she is an American writer born in London of Indian parents and now lives in New York.
Her first collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies (Marco y Marcos and Guanda) immediately caught the attention of many readers and critics, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. Italy also saw the publication of her novel The Namesake (Marcos y Marcos and Guanda) on which Mira Nair based her film of the same name. In 2008, Guanda published her second collection entitled Unaccustomed Earth. Her latest novel, which came out in 2013, The Lowland, has not yet been published in Italy.
