# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elena-ferrante
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:47:21.759Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/elena-ferrante"
name: "Elena Ferrante"
slug: "elena-ferrante"
description: "A name without a face. Since 1992, Elena Ferrante has published novels — including the four-volume Neapolitan series — while refusing to step into public view, insisting books don't need their authors once written."
tagline: "Pseudonymous Italian writer"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ferrante appeared in 1992 with her first novel and has held to anonymity ever since, a choice she frames as essential to the work itself. Her writing, rooted in Italian and translated widely, built a following that exploded with the Neapolitan Novels, a four-book sequence that made her impossible to ignore. Time named her among the 100 most influential people in 2016. The refusal to confirm identity has drawn endless speculation, theories spun from interview crumbs and textual clues, all denied or left hanging. She remains a voice with no verified origin, the work standing where a person might have been.