Now an HBO series.
She lives in New York..
Her translations for Europa Editions include novels by Amara Lakhous, Alessandro Piperno, and Elena Ferrante\'s bestselling My Brilliant Friend .
Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker .
The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Severio Costanzo premiered in 2018.
The four volumes known as the "Neapolitan quartet" ( My Brilliant Friend , The Story of a New Name , Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay , and The Story of the Lost Child ) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015.
She is also the author of a Frantumaglia: A Writer\'s Journey (Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a children\'s picture Book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016).
About the Author: Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
With My Brilliant Friend she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
Ferrante is one of the world\'s great storytellers. "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman," writes James Wood in The New Yorker . "Spectacular," says Maureen Corrigan on NPR \'s Fresh Air. "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends," writes Entertainment Weekly .
Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists.
Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.
Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy\'s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times ) Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante\'s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflictual friendship.
Now an HBO series
