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Online event – “The Lying Life of Adults” by Elena Ferrante – conversation, reading, Q&A.

Tuesday, 29 September 2020 from 8:00pm – Elena Ferrante’s recently translated “The Lying Life of Adults” – conversation, reading, Q&A.

We are beyond thrilled to see Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction winner and Bancarella Prize finalist acclaimed Irish writer Catherine Dunne among discussants for “The Lying Life of Adults – A Global Event for Readers”

Please book your place through Eventbrite

A link to join the event will be sent via email to all registered participants on the date of the event, September 29.

“Elena Ferrante readers number in the millions worldwide. She has been celebrated by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Roberto Saviano, Lauren Groff, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Richard Flanagan; by musicians and celebrities like Nicole Kidman, Patti Smith, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and John Waters; by well-known thought leaders like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. Her Neapolitan novels have been made into an HBO original series; and her new novel, The Lying Life of Adults, has been optioned by Netflix.

Ferrante has been read by more people in more parts of the world than any other living Italian author and her work has sparked renewed interest in Italian literary culture.”