Together these novels form the Neapolitan Quartet, a modern epic of post-War Italy. The Quartet is about many things: the workers’ and women’s movements, organized crime, gender and sexuality, and ...

Here’s an overview of her 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 ...

The HBO series My Brilliant Friend is based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. The show is not inspired by true events but is a fictional creation representing a new and formidable challenge.

FremantleMedia-owned Italian prodco Wildside, the firm behind forthcoming drama The Young Pope, is coproducing a TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Wildside has partnered with ...