Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist who has kept her identity private since her debut, Troubling Love (1992), and has said she was born in Naples. Her Italian-language books are published by Edizioni e/o and her English editions by Europa Editions, most translated by Ann Goldstein. She is best known for the four Neapolitan Novels, beginning with My Brilliant Friend (2011), and has also written The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, The Lying Life of Adults and the nonfiction collections Frantumaglia and In the Margins.