In November 2009, Clara Sereni came to Madison, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. While in Madison, Clara gave a brilliant, engaging talk at the French House on her writings: how food and cooking traverse the private and the public, the politics of food and writing, encompassing Italian literature, Italian Cinema and politics. Then in Chicago at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Clara and Giovanna presented and discussed, respectively in Italian and in English, the English translation of Sereni's most famous and read book Keeping House: A Novel in Recipes. That was followed by a book signing and an elegant and delicious reception, as well as a lively discussion with the audience.
Clara Sereni, an award-winning author of many novels and non-fiction books, is considered a contemporary pioneer in the genre of food and literature. Her 1987 autobiographical novel Casalinghitudine was first published in 1987 and has been translated in English as Keeping House. A Novel in Recipes (2005). She is a prominent Italian intellectual figure as a political and social activist (former deputy-mayor of the City of Perugia, a model community of social innovations and experimentations), as a regular opinion-writer in major Italian newspapers. All her books and work are infused with Sereni’s keen observation of the social, political and cultural mutations of Italian society in the last forty years.
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