The true identity of the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has, allegedly, been revealed, but many fans and other writers are not happy about it. Elena Ferrante is the pen name of a bestselling author who’s been publishing anonymously for almost a quarter of a century. But a story out Sunday in the New York Review of Books claims that Ferrante is actually Anita Raja, a translator who lives in Rome – and it makes a compelling case.
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