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Magnaccioni
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Discover a powerful Scottish story filled with atmosphere, emotion and unforgettable characters.
Perfect for readers who love rich storytelling and a deep sense of place.
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About the Ebook
Magnaccioni: (Roman dialect) people who live to eat well. I know no other word that captures that rare gift, that supremely basic human quality of eating with mind, eyes and heart and radiating uncontainable pleasure in so doing. In Magnaccioni, Anne Pia wants to make you feel tempted, greedy. My Food… My Italy
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About the Author
DR ANNE PIA, poet, essayist, and translator lives in Edinburgh. She is the grandchild of Italian immigrants and was raised surrounded by the culture, traditions and dialect of southern Italy. Anne’s work focuses on identity, immigration, language, otherness and sexuality. Her creative memoir Language of My Choosing was shortlisted for the Saltire Award for Best New Book of 2017. In 2018, Anne was awarded the Premio Flaiano Italianistica: La Cultura Italiana nel Mondo. The Italian translation Ho Scelto La Mia Lingua was published in 2018 together with her first poetry collection, Transitory. She is a winner of the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Flash Fiction Competition 2021. Keeping Away The Spiders; Essays on Breaching Barriers was published in November 2020 by Luath Press, and her second poetry collection The Sweetness of Demons with translations from French, was published by Vagabond Voices in April 2021 on the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth. Dragons Wear Lipstick her poetry pamphlet was published by Dreich in November 2022. She has read at the Stanza International Poetry Festival, the Dundee Literary Festival, the Paisley and Portobello Book Festivals. Anne is listed in the Scottish Poetry Library Catalogue of Scottish Poets and is a regular contributor to poetry and literary gatherings in Edinburgh and more widely in Scotland. In 2018 she was a guest lecturer at the British Institute in Florence. In 2022 she was invited to join the Judging panel for the Scottish National Book Awards.Publication Details
Publisher: Luath Press
Publication Date: 15 September 2023
Print Length: 192 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9781804251256
Format: Ebook
Language: English / Scots
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