Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci (born July 24 1929) is an Italian journalist and author. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.. After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of articles and books highly critical of Islam that aroused substantial controversy.

Career

Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà".

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Florence - Italy - World War II

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Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war.

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Fascist - Benito Mussolini

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Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1950.

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Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine L'Europeo and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and Epoca magazine.

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1967 - Vietnam - Indo-Pakistani War - Middle East - South America - L'Europeo - Epoca

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She has interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Omar Khadafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguyen Van Thieu, Haile Selassie and Sean Connery.

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Henry Kissinger - Shah of Iran - Ayatollah Khomeini - Willy Brandt - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - Walter Cronkite - Omar Khadafi - Federico Fellini - Sammy Davis Jr - Nguyen Cao Ky - Yasir Arafat - Indira Gandhi - Makarios III - Golda Meir - Nguyen Van Thieu - Haile Selassie - Sean Connery

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Fallaci has twice received the St. Vincent Prize for journalism, as well as the Bancarella Prize, 1971 for Nothing and So Be It; Viareggio Prize, 1979, for Un uomo: Romanzo; and Prix Antibes, 1993, for Insciallah. She received a D.Litt. from Columbia College (Chicago).

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She has lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, and Columbia University.

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University of Chicago - Yale University - Harvard University - Columbia University

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Fallaci?s writings have been translated into 21 languages including English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Swedish, Polish and Croatian.

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English - Spanish - French - Dutch - German - Greek - Swedish - Polish - Croatian

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