Elena Ferrante, with the publication of her first book, Troubling Love in 1992, announced to her publisher that she would do nothing to promote the book – that she would not be p
Readers of Elena Ferrante will happily tell you how the books have given them endless pleasure. However, Ferrante’s gift to the lonely world of women academics is priceless: a tr
It is with some trepidation that I approach this review of Elena Ferrante’s unabridged and updated collection of papers, Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey. Many readers will ali
A night of readings and conversation with playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker journalist and broadcaster Robin Lustig writer and cook Kate Young and novelist Jonathan Gibbs Hosted by
We have a blockbuster Italian edition of #RivetingReviews this month, our first country focus edition. A year after I launched #RivetingReviews with my reading of Elena Ferrante’
Over three days this summer, before the unmasking of the identity of Italy’s most famous writer, Elena Ferrante, I sat down on our terrace in Italy to read and review for you Fer
A year ago, in the summer of 2015, the final novel of The Neapolitan Quartet by the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante was published in English, translated by Ann Goldstein. The journ
On Monday evening, Han Kang was announced as the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian. For the first time, the prize was being awarded based
What a difference a year makes. On the 16th of February 2015 I wrote to the Emerging Translators Network: “Today is a very special day for me: I have started to work on the
