This author of The Days of Abandonment may have been "unmasked" as the translator Anita Raja by Claudio Gatti in October of 2016.
A character created by this author orders her daughter to slash her with a paper-cutter whenever she succumbs to depression, which prevents her from getting treatment for her poisoned German shepherd Otto. At the end of one of this author's novels, the dolls Tina and Nu are mail-delivered to a character who lost them by throwing them in the basement of a loan shark gang. This author employed a technique called "dissolving boundaries" to represent the consciousness of a character who experiences the sky as "poisoned egg stars." The protagonist of a novel by this author throws a friend's notebooks into the Arno, in reference to Manzoni. That character, Lenu Greco, competes with her friend Lila across a quartet of novels that begins with My Brilliant Friend. This author of The Days of Abandonment may have been "unmasked" as the translator Anita Raja by Claudio Gatti in October of 2016. For 10 points, give the pseudonym of this author, a contemporary Italian woman who wrote the Neapolitan Novels.
A character created by this author orders her daughter to slash her with a paper-cutter whenever she succumbs to depression, which prevents her from getting treatment for her poisoned German shepherd Otto.
Elena Ferrante [or Anita Raja until it is read]