Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence on 29 June 1929 and died in the same city on 15 September 2006. The first woman journalist in Italy to be sent to the war front as special correspondent, Oriana Fallaci was one of the most important figures in Italian journalism, also thanks to her notable interviews with prominent personalities such as Giulio Andreotti, Yassir Arafat, Gaddafi, Khomeini, Henry Kissinger, Ariel Sharon, collected in the volume Intervista con la storia (Interview with history). Amongst her novels we should mention Un uomo (A man),Lettera a un bambino mai nato (Letter to a child never born), Penelope alla guerra (Penelope at war) and Insciallah (Inshallah).