Elena Ferrante's novels have found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Ferrante is probably the best-known Italian writer of literary fiction alive today, whose work is renowned for its intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives.
Join us as we celebrate and discuss Ferrante’s work with the novels’ English translator Ann Goldstein, journalist Isabel Berwick of the Financial Times and Merve Emre of the University of Oxford.
Ann is a New York-based translator, who has been translating Ferrante’s novels into English for over 16 years; Merve is co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism, while Isabel recently wrote a review for the FT of Ferrante’s latest novel The Lying Life of Adults.
Through our panel discussion, discover why the pseudonymous Ferrante’s work – including the four volumes of the ‘Neapolitan Novels’ - has gained the writer such a legion of loyal fans across the globe.
