Elena Ferrante

What is an author? The response to that question was never simple, and it became a lot more complicated after Barthes, Foucault, and post-structuralism. Now, here comes an investigative journalist who thinks he knows the answer.

Elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk are among six finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.

What is an author? The response to that question was never simple, and it became a lot more complicated after Barthes, Foucault, and post-structuralism. Now, here comes an investigative journalist who thinks he knows the answer.

Elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk are among six finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.