ORIANA FALLACI

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Oriana Fallaci
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Italian journalist,author, and political
interviewer (June 29th 1929- September 15th
2006). A former partisan during World War II, she
had a long and successful journalistic career.
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ACTIVITY She has interviewed many
internationally known leaders and celebrities
such as the Dalai Lama, the Shah of Iran, Willy
Brandt, Federico Fellini, Nguyen Cao Ky, Indira
Gandhi, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir,
Haile Selassie, Sean Connery. After retirement,
she returned to the spotlight after writing a
series of articles and books critical of Islam
and Arabs that aroused both support as well
controversies and accusations of racism and
Islamophobia. Fallaci was a life-long heavy
smoker. She died on September 15th 2006 in her
native Florence from breast cancer.
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AWARDS On November 30th 2005 Oriana Fallaci
received in New York the Annie Taylor Award for
the courage of the Center for the Study of
Popular Culture. She was honored for the heroism
and the values that rendered her a symbol of
the fight against Islamic fascism and a knight of
the freedom of humankind. The Annie Taylor Award
is annually awarded to people who have
demonstrated unusual courage in adverse
conditions and great danger. David Horowitz,
founder of the center, provided the following
motivation for the award, defining Oriana Fallaci
a General in the fight for freedom.
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• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• The Seven Sins of Hollywood, preface by Orson
  Welles, 1958.
• The Useless Sex Voyage around the Woman, 1961.
• Penelope at War, 1962.
• Limelighters, 1963.
• If the Sun Dies, 1965 about the USA space
  program.
• The Egotists Sixteen Surprising Interviews,
  1968.
• Nothing, and so be it, 1969 report on the
  Vietnam war based on personal experiences.
• Quel giorno sulla Luna, 1970.
• Letter to a Child Never Born, 1975 a dialogue
  between a mother and her unborn child.
• Interview With History, 1976 interviews with
  various political figures.

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• A Man, 1979 a novel about a hero who fights
  alone for freedom and for truth, never giving up,
  and so he dies, killed by all.
• Inshallah, 1990 a fictional account of Italian
  troops stationed in Lebanon in 1983.
• The Rage and The Pride, 2001 an expose on Islam.
• The Force of Reason, 2004.
• Oriana Fallaci intervista Oriana Fallaci, 2004
  Fallaci interviews herself on the subject of
  Eurabia and Islamofacism.
• Oriana Fallaci intervista se stessa -
  L'Apocalisse, 2008 an update of the interview
  with herself a new, long epilogue is added.
• Un cappello pieno di ciliege, 2008 a novel about
  history of her ancestors, published two years
  after her death.

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Created by Silvia Alban Valeria Guarnieri Sara
Rodella Gioia Sguotti