The HBO series My Brilliant Friend is based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. The show is not inspired by true events but is a fictional creation representing a new and formidable challenge.

The fourth and last TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Mt Brilliant Friend quartet of Neapolitan novels has made the New York ...

Tune into the premiere of the HBO series, see whom Joan Vassos picks for her final rose on “The Bachelorette” and catch up on news.

With the 2011 release of My Brilliant Friend, the first of her Neapolitan Novels – a four-book series about two girls growing up amid the grim violence of Naples – Ferrante’s literary star ...

Together these novels form the Neapolitan Quartet, a modern epic of post-War Italy. The Quartet is about many things: the workers’ and women’s movements, organized crime, gender and sexuality, and ...

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