Titles by Italian authors Elena Ferrante and the late Primo Levi have both made it into the top 100 books of the year compiled by the New York Times, it emerged on Monday.

The books in question - The Story of the Lost Child by the elusive Ferrante (a pseudonym), which is the fourth and final volume in her quartet of Neapolitan novels, and the complete works of the Holocaust survivor who committed suicide 28 years ago - have both been translated into English and curated by Ann Goldstein, a New Yorker editor and passionate ambassador on behalf of Italian literature in the United States.

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