That absolute creative freedom has resulted in a series of brilliant novels. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers if not, they won’t.” Anonymity, she thought, would preserve “a space of absolute creative freedom”, a freedom all the more necessary because her books stick “a finger in certain wounds I have that are still infected”. In 1991, shortly before the publication of her style-defining first book, Troubling Love, Ferrante sent a letter to her editor, explaining that she would not be promoting it: “I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. She refuses face-to-face interviews, has only given a handful of written ones (a few of her letters have been published), and makes no personal appearances no photographs of her have been published. In our self-promoting, Twitter-saturated age, Ferrante is an outlier, an author who wishes to remain totally private. She seems once to have been married she may have lived in Greece she appears to be a mother. Elena Ferrante is an Italian novelist who was born in or near Naples.
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