# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oriana-fallaci
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:45:00.642Z

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name: "Oriana Fallaci"
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description: "She made world leaders squirm. Oriana Fallaci's interviews in the '60s, '70s, and '80s were long, confrontational, and often brutal — Henry Kissinger called his \"the single most disastrous conversation\" he ever had with press."
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deathDate: "2006-09-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Fallaci joined the Italian resistance as a teenager during World War II, then built a career covering war and revolution from the ground. In 1968, Mexican soldiers shot her three times and left her for dead; she survived and kept returning to conflict zones. Her book Interview with History collected sit-downs with figures like Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, the Shah of Iran, and Ruhollah Khomeini — encounters that became notorious for how far she pushed. After retiring in New York, the September 11th attacks pulled her back: she wrote articles and books sharply critical of Islam that found a wide audience and drew accusations of Islamophobia.