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Jun 29, 1929 Florence, Tuscany Died on 15 Sep 2006 (aged 77)
Italian writer
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About Oriana Fallaci
- Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [o'rja?na fal'la?t?i]; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer.
- A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.
- Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her interviews with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her book Interview with History contains interviews with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Henry Kissinger, South Vietnamese President Nguy?n Van Thi?u, and North Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp during the Vietnam War.
- The interview with Kissinger was published in Playboy, with Kissinger describing himself as "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse".
- Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press".
- She also interviewed Deng Xiaoping, Andreas Papandreou, Ayatollah Khomeini, Haile Selassie, Lech Walesa, Muammar Gaddafi, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Mário Soares, Alfred Hitchcock, and many others. After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of controversial articles and books critical of Islam that aroused condemnation as well as support.
