Anita Raja

Anita Raja (born 1953) is an Italian translator and writer who has translated many literary works from German to Italian, including those of Christa Wolf, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, and many others. Raja has been suggested as a possible candidate for the Italian author writing under the pen name Elena Ferrante. Since 2016, journalistic investigations and scholarly work analysing financial records and textual similarities have led to reports that the books published under the Ferrante name are the work of either Raja, Domenico Starnone (Raja's husband), or both. Starnone has strenuously denied being the author in the press and in his books, arguing that any similarities between his writing and Ferrante's are due to commonalities in subject matter and context. Provided by Wikipedia