Waiting for the real author to say 'I am Elena Ferrante'

By Susan Wyndham
Updated October 19 2016 - 10:13am, first published October 8 2016 - 12:15am
Claudio Gatti claims he has proved translator Anita Raja is the real Elena Ferrante.
Claudio Gatti claims he has proved translator Anita Raja is the real Elena Ferrante.

Even grown-ups want to believe in fairytales, as a journalist found when public outrage greeted his "unmasking" of the best-selling Italian novelist Elena Ferrante this week.

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