Elena Ferrante
About the author

Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. Fragments, a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in early 2016. She is one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors.Ann Goldstein has translated all of Elena Ferrante’s work. She is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Prize.

Books by Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante Articles

Inspiring, Thoughtful Writing: Read an Extract From Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

Review | Extract

21 November 2019

Inspiring, Thoughtful Writing: Read an Extract From Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

    A Book to Cherish and Read Again: A Review of Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

    Review | Our Review

    18 November 2019

    A Book to Cherish and Read Again: A Review of Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

      Exclusive Preview: My Brilliant Friend On TV

      News

      10 September 2018

      Exclusive Preview: My Brilliant Friend On TV

        The Next Live Book Club Will Be... Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend

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        29 April 2016

        The Next Live Book Club Will Be... Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend

          Books of The Week: The Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante

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          10 November 2015

          Books of The Week: The Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante