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Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn't despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
The unmasking of Charlotte Brontë changed the way that her books were read.
In her novels, in numerous articles and in correspondence, Elena Ferrante has chosen to depict the world from a female point of view. She has always claimed that the woman’s gaze is decisive.
The unmasking of the real author of the Neapolitan series was an act of vandalism.
Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" and her Neapolitan novel cycle "an unconditional masterpiece". But the author herself remains an intangible figure.
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Italian Studies, University of Sydney
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of St Andrews
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Associate Professor, Università per Stranieri di Siena
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Researcher and Tutor, University of Oxford
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University College Dublin
