All of the English translations of this author's novels were done by New Yorker editor Ann Goldstein.
A character created by this author describes the lesson of Joyce's Ulysses to her former elementary school teacher as "that we want only to eat, drink, fuck." A character created by this author gets a grueling job in a pastrami factory from Bruno, the friend of a student she had an affair with while on a summer vacation in Iskia. This author described growing up as the child of a seamstress in the memoir Frantumaglia. All of the English translations of this author's novels were done by New Yorker editor Ann Goldstein. A piece of investigative reporting in the (*) New York Review of Books by Claudio Gatti revealed that this author may be Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator. This author's best known works center on the relationship between the narrator and Lila. For 10 points, name this pseudonymous author of My Brilliant Friend, the first of her Neapolitan novels.
A character created by this author describes the lesson of Joyce's Ulysses to her former elementary school teacher as "that we want only to eat, drink, fuck."
Elena Ferrante