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Seven years ago, Pulitzer prize winning writer, Jhumpa Lahiri, started a literary adventure. She moved from the United States to Italy to immerse herself in the Italian language. She had learned Italian, but she wanted to master it. She took intensive language lessons, read only Italian literature and began writing fiction in Italian. Her Italian experiment ended when she moved back to the US to teach creative writing at Princeton University, and it was then that she found out that some the Italian authors she had studied in Italy had not been translated into into English. Three years ago she began translating, and the result is a newly-published book: 'The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories', which brings together work of 40 Italian authors of the 20th century - some well-known like Primo levi and Italo Calvino alongside 16 captivating new discoveries.