The HBO series My Brilliant Friend is based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels ... For readers of Ferrante's books, it's enough to know that the four seasons mirror the four novels and are ...

Elena Ferrante ... work → My Brilliant Friend If you’re completely new to Ferrante, start here, with the first of her four Neapolitan novels. They trace a lifelong, complex friendship between ...

Ever since her first novel, Troubling Love, was published in 1992, nobody has known the true identity of bestselling Italian author Elena Ferrante ... the first of her Neapolitan Novels ...

(JTA) – The mysterious best-selling Italian author who writes under the pen name Elena Ferrante ... publisher of Ferrante’s books, including her quartet of wildly popular Neapolitan novels ...

But in a recent article published in the New York Review of Books (and ... and later married a Neapolitan magistrate.” In other words: It’s very likely the real Elena Ferrante did not ...

After all, this was before her work appeared on The New York Times list of “100 Notable Books of 2015 ... final novel in Elena Ferrante’s literary blockbuster Neapolitan series.

Elsa Morante was the first woman to win the Strega, Italy’s equivalent of the Booker, in 1957, for her novel Arturo’s Island.

A teenage girl uncovers family secrets and lies in 1990s Naples, in the new novel by Elena Ferrante, author of the Neapolitan novels. Read by Juliet Aubrey.

The new TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend recreates that key scene just as you imagined. And what a relief. When books are as well-loved as Ferrante’s four Neapolitan ...

Gaia Girace and Margherita Mazzucco as Lila and Lenù Based on the second book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet, The Story of a New Name, the second season follows the 16-year-olds as they ...