Elena Ferrante

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Elena Ferrante is the pseudonymous Italian novelist internationally acclaimed for her Neapolitan Novels series exploring female friendship, identity, and social change in postwar Naples.

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Elena Ferrante canonical 4
Elena Ferrante (attributed) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian writer
novel
novel
novel
novel
novel series
novelist
pseudonymous writer
woman writer
author Elena Ferrante self-linksurface differs
countryOfCitizenship Italy
genre autofiction
literary fiction
psychological fiction
hasGender female
hasPart My Brilliant Friend
The Story of a New Name
The Story of the Lost Child
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
influencedBy Italian postwar society
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
movement contemporary literature
notableFor Neapolitan Novels
surface form: Neapolitan Novels series

depiction of women’s inner lives
exploration of female friendship
portrayal of postwar Naples
notableWork Frantumaglia
My Brilliant Friend
Neapolitan Novels
The Beach at Night
The Days of Abandonment
The Lost Daughter
The Lying Life of Adults
The Story of a New Name
The Story of the Lost Child
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Troubling Love
occupation novelist
writer
partOf Neapolitan Novels
period 21st century literature
late 20th century literature
placeOfBirth Naples
pseudonymOf unknown person
usesPseudonym true
workLocation Naples
writingStyle first-person narration
focus on female subjectivity
intense psychological realism

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Einaudi hasPublished Elena Ferrante
St Hugh’s College, Oxford hasAlumnus Elena Ferrante
this entity surface form: Elena Ferrante (attributed)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux hasPublished Elena Ferrante
Ann Goldstein translatorOf Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante author Elena Ferrante self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Neapolitan Novels