The first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet was just voted the best book of the 21st century. We like it too. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-08-23 13:58:16 UTC ]
In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “My Brilliant Friend,” the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-31 09:04:25 UTC ]
Bethanne Patrick's March picks include works by Bob Odenkirk and Elena Ferrante, as well as an Indigenous punk memoir and magical African allegories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-28 14:00:38 UTC ]
Who is Elena Ferrante? One of the most widely-acclaimed and beloved contemporary novelists is also the most unknown. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-29 11:33:00 UTC ]
This week, the winner of the Planeta Prize, a Spanish 1-million-euro literary award, was announced: Carmen Mola, a famously private crime thriller writer. All that was known about Mola, often referred to as Spain’s “Elena Ferrante,” is that she was a university professor in her mid-40s living in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-18 18:30:34 UTC ]
Trio step out from behind pseudonym marketed as ‘Spain’s Elena Ferrante’ to accept €1m prizeA million euro literary prize has lured three Spanish men out of anonymity, to reveal that they are behind ultra-violent Spanish crime thrillers marketed as the work of “Spain’s Elena Ferrante”The men had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-16 22:37:44 UTC ]
Yes! I do. You probably do, too. Well, starting today, as part of the International Literature Festival Utrecht, you can indeed stream video of the utterly delightful Olivia Colman reading a brand new lecture by Elena Ferrante (as translated by Ann Goldstein; the lecture will also be available... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-24 13:20:11 UTC ]
Natalie Portman is to star in a film adaptation of Elena Ferrante's second novel, The Days of Abandonment (Europa Editions). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-14 11:17:10 UTC ]
With books delayed by the pandemic reaching shops alongside other titles aimed at the Christmas market, the trade has seen sales boomBooksellers up and down the UK are reporting a boom in sales since readers returned to bookshops after the lockdown, with the first avalanche of Christmas titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-11 12:40:19 UTC ]
Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow, August 29th, is Independent Bookstore Day. This year, the festivities will be both online and in-person at 600+ local bookstores around the country, starting tonight with a conversation between Mary Norris and Ann Goldstein about Elena Ferrante’s The Lying... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-28 17:01:59 UTC ]
In the U.S., 'The Lying Life of Adults' won't be published until September 1, after a delay caused by Covid-19—but its publishers, here and worldwide, still have high hopes for the book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
In the U.S., 'The Lying Life of Adults' won't be published until September 1, after a delay caused by Covid-19—but its publishers, here and worldwide, still have high hopes for the book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Europa Editions has sold world English language audio rights to Elena Ferrante's latest novel to Penguin Random House Audio. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-13 09:15:04 UTC ]
Ten indie booksellers from across the UK have won the chance to spend the night in a hotel burning the midnight oil with a limited edition proof of the new Elena Ferrante novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 16:22:56 UTC ]
“My Brilliant Friend” and Elena Ferrante’s other best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up the country’s male-dominated literary establishment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-09 10:00:14 UTC ]
According to the Bookseller, Elena Ferrante’s first novel in five years will be published in English in June 2020 by Europa Editions. The Lying Life of Adults (great title? or greatest title?) is out in Italian this coming November 7, and the English version will, of course, appear in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-28 12:11:35 UTC ]
Italian author Elena Ferrante will publish a new novel in Italy in November - her first in four years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 18:13:15 UTC ]
Lit Lists Kayla E. Ciardi For WLT’s November 2016 issue, author and translator Alison Anderson explores and explains in her essay “Of Gatekeepers and Bedtime Stories: The Ongoing Struggle to Make Women’s Voices Heard”—in an issue devoted exclusively to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-08-15 14:12:27 UTC ]
Elena Ferrante’s "The Story of the Lost Child" landed in the top spot in France at the end of January and was in second place on Germany’s bestseller list last month. The novel was published in the U.S. in fall 2015 by Europa Editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elena Ferrante is to write a weekly newspaper column for the Guardian’s new look Weekend magazine. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]