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Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.

Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.

In October 2016, investigative reporter Claudio Gatti published an article jointly in Il Sole 24 Ore and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that relied on financial records related to real estate transactions and royalties payments to draw the conclusion that Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator, is the real author behind the Ferrante pseudonym.

In December 2016, the controversial Italian prankster Tommaso Debenedetti published on the website of the Spanish daily El Mundo a purported interview with Raja confirming she was Elena Ferrante; this was quickly denied by Ferrante's publisher, who called the interview a fake.

In September 2017, a team of scholars, computer scientists, philologists and linguists at the University of Padua analyzed 150 novels written in Italian by 40 different authors, including seven books by Elena Ferrante, but none by Raja. Based on analysis using several authorship attribution models, they concluded that Anita Raja's husband, author and journalist Domenico Starnone, is the probable author of the Ferrante novels. Raja has worked for E/O Publishing as copy editor and has been editing Starnone's books for years.

Ferrante has repeatedly dismissed suggestions that she is actually a man, telling Vanity Fair in 2015 that questions about her gender are rooted in a presumed "weakness" of female writers.

ARTICLE: Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

I DON'T mean his female friends or 'celebrities'. I'm talking random girls he doesn't know or speak to, and perhaps people he has no intention of ever talking to. Just simply liking their selfies.

In particular, if the girl doesn't even follow him back and is someone he followed before the relationship began.

So last month was, like every month, a new all time high in illegal border crossing with almost 60,000 people running across the border up into our country and asking us if we hablo spaniol (which we don't cuz in America we speak American) and starting to use food stamps etc. Do you think Biden's handlers will ever get the border secured or will we have to wait for 2024 when we get the president back

Me and my friend today were taking about what girl we find the prettiest/most beautiful in the world. I said Candice Swanepoel (the blonde) and she said Megan fox (the brunette)
we couldn’t agree..
Put more pics of Candice because everyone knows who Megan fox as she’s more popular.

curious to see what everyone else’s pick would be!

Before you call me a heartless parent let me explain. In Singapore raising a child is no longer meant for people with low or average income, as for me my salary is less than $1.5k, if I really want one child I had to marry a man who earns around $3k per month. That’s because I also have to pay $1k to hire a nanny to take care of the baby, if I were to marry a guy with the same income as me and have a child basically our lives will be very miserable because there won’t be enough money to raise a child. I also wouldn’t want my parents to raise my child since they already had a hard time raising me due to financial issues, no way will I want my parents to go through that again.

We don't like texting so we keep it short but talk over phone for hours.

#relationships

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