They include the following novels.
Elena ferrante real name. Sounds paranoid but plausible. At that time I hadnt read any of Starnones novels. Perhaps the author believed that the only way to safeguard her identity was to create a persona to occupy the space of Elena Ferrante.
She becomes pregnant with Ninos child at the same time Lila conceives a daughter with Enzo. Ferrantes true identity as literary translator Anita Raja was revealed if the report by Italian investigative journalist Claudio Gatti is correct the old-school shoe-leather way with leaks. She has also for two and a half decades been publishing under a name that is not her own.
Elena Ferrante is one of our greatest living writers. Decades earlier Elena the narrator who shares your name surged ahead of Lila with the publication of a book that drew its inspiration from something Lila had written as a girl. He believed her to be Anita Raja a translator who lives in Rome with her.
These are the families that make up the world of My Brilliant Friend. My Brilliant Friend 2012 The Story of a New Name 2013 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay 2014 and The Story of the Lost Child 2015. In 1991 when Ferrante published her first novel Troubling Love she stipulated to her publisher that she would not give interviews readings or any other form of publicity.
Anita Raja is married to the author Domenico Starnone who some have suggested is the real Elena Ferrante. Now I find myself despairing at the plausibility of Claudio Gatti and Roberto Napoletano and how well they. Ferrantes true identity as literary translator Anita Raja was revealed if the report by Italian investigative journalist Claudio Gatti is correct the old-school shoe-leather way with leaks.
Very little is known about the writer as she has purposefully kept her identity and personal history secret. Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of the unknown Italian author of My Brilliant Friend. So when I first stumbled on a series of scholarly articles that through stylometric analysis identified Elena Ferrante as the Italian novelist Domenico Starnone Anita Rajas husband I was not ready to lay down my weapons.