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Elena Ferrante

1943 - Today

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Elena Ferrante (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛːlena ferˈrante]) is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elena Ferrante has received more than 3,426,458 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Elena Ferrante is the 421st most popular writer (down from 313th in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from Italy (down from 406th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Italian Writer.

Elena Ferrante is most famous for her Neapolitan Novels, which are a series of four novels that tell the story of two friends, Elena and Lila, who grow up in Naples, Italy.

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  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elena Ferrante ranks 421 out of 5,755Before her are Julio Cortázar, Tibullus, Karl Barth, Joseph Brodsky, Zecharia Sitchin, and George Eliot. After her are G. K. Chesterton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jami, Phaedrus, Louis Aragon, and Vladimir Vysotsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Elena Ferrante ranks 28Before her are Joseph Stiglitz, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Christopher Walken, Tarja Halonen, Howard Gardner, and Horst Köhler. After her are Salvatore Adamo, Raffaella Carrà, Malcolm McDowell, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-Jacques Annaud, and David Cronenberg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elena Ferrante ranks 541 out of 4,668Before her are Pope Stephen VIII (900), Gianni Rodari (1920), Lavinia Fontana (1552), Beatrice Portinari (1265), Tibullus (-50), and Rodolfo Graziani (1882). After her are Marsilius of Padua (1275), Octavia the Younger (-69), Pope John XIV (1000), Cosima Wagner (1837), Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), and Dominic Savio (1842).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Elena Ferrante ranks 35Before her are Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), Cornelius Nepos (-100), Pietro Aretino (1492), Propertius (-50), and Tibullus (-50). After her are Ennius (-239), Livius Andronicus (-280), Grazia Deledda (1871), Statius (40), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896).