--- title: No, Elena Ferrante Is Not on Twitter description: Her publisher said an impostor account is 'Definitely not legit' canonical: https://time.com/4268013/elena-ferrante-not-on-twitter/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-22T17:59:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:07:16.699Z article:section: Ideas og:title: No, Elena Ferrante Is Not on Twitter og:description: Her publisher said an impostor account is 'Definitely not legit' og:url: https://time.com/4268013/elena-ferrante-not-on-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67e7e68d231262c0/69887cd92dce01cd419e7bcc/ferrante-books.jpg?branch=production&width=805&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 805 og:image:height: 453 og:image:alt: ferrante-books og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No, Elena Ferrante Is Not on Twitter twitter:description: Her publisher said an impostor account is 'Definitely not legit' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67e7e68d231262c0/69887cd92dce01cd419e7bcc/ferrante-books.jpg?branch=production&width=805&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No, Elena Ferrante Is Not on Twitter > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 22, 2016 5:59 PM UTC  Europa Editions by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 22, 2016 5:59 PM UTC Fans of the mysterious and pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante were intrigued on Tuesday morning when a Twitter [user](https://twitter.com/EFerranteTweets) claiming to be her tweeted first in [Italian](https://twitter.com/EFerranteTweets/status/712211338681053184), “_Eccomi su_ Twitter. Elena,” then in [English](https://twitter.com/EFerranteTweets/status/712211386059857920), “I’m on Twitter. Elena.” Sorry, everyone—_non è_ Elena. “Definitely not legit,” Rachael Small, a senior publicist for Ferrante’s English-language publisher Europa Editions, confirmed to TIME. (The tell might be in a misspelling of Ferrante’s much documented Naples: the impostor account says ‘Neaples.’) Ferrante has maintained strict privacy since rising to international literary fame with her Neapolitan Novels, participating in interviews only in writing—a position she’s upheld since publishing her first novel, _Troubling Love_ (1992). Before it was released, she wrote a [letter](http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2015/8/elena-ferrante-on-anonymity) to her publisher explaining she had no intention of doing anything to promote the book: “I’ve already done enough for this long story: I wrote it … I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers.” So, Twitter promotion was always an unlikely medium for the author of [_My Brilliant Friend_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1609450787/?tag=timecom-20). Readers eager for more Ferrante can instead look forward to her next two books to get English translations: The nonfiction collection [_Frantumaglia_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1609452925/?tag=timecom-20), coming in November, and the children’s book [_The Beach at Night_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1609453700/?tag=timecom-20), coming in December. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4268013/elena-ferrante-not-on-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4268013/elena-ferrante-not-on-twitter/"},"headline":"No, Elena Ferrante Is Not on Twitter","datePublished":"2016-03-22T17:59:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:07:16.699Z","description":"Her publisher said an impostor account is 'Definitely not legit'","url":"https://time.com/4268013/elena-ferrante-not-on-twitter/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67e7e68d231262c0/69887cd92dce01cd419e7bcc/ferrante-books.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67e7e68d231262c0/69887cd92dce01cd419e7bcc/ferrante-books.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ferrante-books","caption":"","creditText":"Europa Editions","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4268013/elena-ferrante-not-on-twitter/","name":"No, Elena Ferrante Is Not on Twitter"}}]}] ```