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      • In the latest twist in one of the most intriguing literary mysteries in recent history, an Italian investigative journalist says financial and real estate records indicate that the Italian translator Anita Raja — daughter of a Polish Jewish mother and Neapolitan father — is behind the best-selling author Elena Ferrante.
      www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/books/elena-ferrante-anita-raja-domenico-starnone.html

      Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals ...

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  3. www.nytimes.com › books › who-is-elena-ferranteWho Is Elena Ferrante, Really? - The New York Times

    4 days ago · Seemingly overnight, Elena Ferrante — or rather, the novelist writing as Elena Ferrante — found worldwide acclaim. ... Anita Raja. Anita Raja — a translator and editor who has worked for ...

  4. www.nytimes.com › 2016/10/03 › booksWho Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals ...

    Oct 3, 2016 · An investigative journalist said financial and real estate records indicate that the Italian translator Anita Raja is behind the best-selling author of four novels set in Naples.

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  6. www.newyorker.com › culture › cultural-commentThe “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante | The New Yorker

    Oct 3, 2016 · Ferrante, he says, is Anita Raja, a translator who lives in Rome with her husband, the Neapolitan writer Domenico Starnone. For many years, Raja has translated books from the German for Edizione...

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  7. www.theatlantic.com › membership › archiveA New Answer to the World’s Biggest Literary Mystery

    Dec 7, 2018 · To explain, let’s back up to 2016, when the Italian investigative journalist Claudio Gatti posited that Ferrante was actually Anita Raja, an Italian literary translator and consultant to...

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  8. www.vox.com › culture › 2016/10/3The doxxing of Elena Ferrante: the uproar over the novelist’s ...

    Oct 3, 2016 · Ferrante, he alleged, is in truth Anita Raja, an obscure translator who specializes in translating East Germany’s women writers into Italian. Uproar ensued immediately, and it was, in the ...

  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elena_FerranteElena Ferrante - Wikipedia

    In December 2016, Tommaso Debenedetti, a controversial Italian prankster, published on the website of the Spanish daily El Mundo a purported interview with Raja confirming she was Elena Ferrante. This was quickly denied by Ferrante's publisher, who called the interview a fake. [39]

  10. www.ekathimerini.com › nytimes › 1243958Elena Ferrante’s novels are beloved. Her identity remains a ...

    2 days ago · Speculation about Ferrante’s true identity has centered on two people. The Theories. Anita Raja – a translator and editor who has worked for Edizioni E/O – has been a leading contender at least since 2015, when an Italian gossip site noted, “There’s not a cat or dog that doesn’t know that Ferrante’s real name is Raja.”