Elena Ferrante: Quick Facts

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Notable Works	“My Brilliant Friend” • “The Beach at Night” • “The Days of Abandonment” • “The Lost Daughter” • “The Lying Life of Adults” • “The Story of a New Name” • “The Story of the Lost Child” • “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” • “Troubling Love”

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Gaia Girace and Margherita Mazzucco sit on a couch in front of a painting, with Mazzucco holding an open book, in a scene from the HBO series My Brilliant Friend.

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Giovanni Guareschi

Italian journalist and novelist

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Curzio Malaparte

Italian writer

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Italian author and literary critic

Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Silone, 1969

Ignazio Silone

Italian author

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Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

Svevo, Italo

Italo Svevo

Italian author

Dino Buzzati

Dino Buzzati

Italian author

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Italo Calvino

Italian author

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Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

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Elio Vittorini

Italian author

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Elsa Morante

Italian author

Moravia, 1969

Alberto Moravia

Italian writer

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Cesare Zavattini

Italian screenwriter, author, and painter

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Vasco Pratolini

Italian author

Verga

Giovanni Verga

Italian author

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author