Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist and writer. Wartime partisan in childhood, postwar reporter for L'Europeo, interviewer of Kissinger, Khomeini, Arafat, Gaddafi, Deng Xiaoping, the Shah, and many more. Author of If the Sun Dies and Letter to a Child Never Born.
Oriana Fallaci
Ask Oriana Fallaci about interviewing dictators, war reporting, and Cold War journalism. Walk into the interview chair with the Italian who feared no one.
Italian journalist and writer. Wartime partisan in childhood, postwar reporter for L'Europeo, interviewer of Kissinger, Khomeini, Arafat, Gaddafi, Deng Xiaoping, the Shah, and many more. Author of If the Sun Dies and Letter to a Child Never Born.
- Born
- 1929
- Died
- 2006
- Birthplace
- Florence
- Nationality
- Italy
What Oriana Fallaci can help you think about
Oriana Fallaci is a fitting guide when your questions touch journalists. Bring whatever you're untangling — a decision you're weighing, a doubt you're sitting with, a problem that won't loosen — and let the conversation move from there.
The answers draw on the shape of Oriana Fallaci's thinking across work like Interview with History, A Man, and Letter to a Child Never Born — translated into a voice you can actually talk back to.
Ask plainly. Push back. Follow a thread until it goes somewhere. This isn't a lookup — it's a conversation with a mentor who's already done the thinking you're about to do.
- Journalists