Meeting with Author Beppe Severgnini

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Italy & Vietnam: Culture and Enterprises
Y-Viet 2011

Mon 03 Oct 2011, 5 pm
Creative Space Club

From the Italian Embassy Hanoi:
In the framework of Y Viet 2011 and on the occasion of the XI Edition of the Italian Language Week in the World, the Embassy of Italy in Vietnam, in cooperation with Nha Nam Publishers proudly organizes a meeting with the journalist Beppe Severgnini, author of The Head of the Italians (Nha Nam Publishers). The meeting will be held at the “Creative Space Club” Trung Nguyen Café (36 Dien Bien Phu -Hanoi), on Monday 3 October 2011 at 5 p.m.

With some foreign friends the author discovers Italy and its homes, squares, shops, churches, stadiums and beaches: ten days and thirty places giving an overview of the culture and values of the Italian people. The head of Italians is the last unexplored region of the Country, and it is interesting a tour in it.

A tour across Italy with these foreign friends, in which the author “translates” the Country: the unknown rules  of the streets and the orderly anarchy of an office, the talkativeness of trains and the wisdom of an Hotel, the reassurance of a church and the crowding of a bedroom, the importance of a beach and the democracy of the living room. This book helps Italian and Vietnamese people getting closer to each other and get a complete image of Italy, through many lifestyle hints, from North to South, from food to sport and finally from morality to politic.

Beppe Severgnini has been writing for the Corriere della Sera , the most renowed newspaper in Italy, since 1995 and has just published La pancia degli Italian. Berlusconi spiegato ai posteri (Rizzoli 2010, Berlusconi Explained to Posterity and Friends Abroad). Since 1998 he has been moderating the online forum “Italians” the subject of his book Italians. Il giro del mondo in 80 pizze (Rizzoli 2008). He has written for The Economist (1993-2003) and for the New York Times Syndicate (2007-2009). In 2004, Beppe Severgnini was voted European Journalist of the Year in Brussels. Severgnini’s books, published in Italy by Rizzoli, are bestsellers.

Beppe Severgnini teaches at the Walter Tobagi School of Journalism at the University of Milan/IFG. He has been a research fellow/writer in residence at MIT/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009) and has taught at Middlebury College, Vermont (2006), and at the universities of Milan-Bocconi (2003 and 2006), Parma (1998) and Pavia (2002), which elected him “Alumnus of the Year” for 1998. He has also lectured at many universities in Italy and abroad.

For further information:

Embassy of Italy, Ms. Hoa 04.3 8256256 (ext. 116) or [email protected]