Oriana Fallaci

Italian journalist (1929-2006) · Italy · Journalists · Died at 77 · also Serbia

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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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2026Read more around 20 years on15 September 20262006Died15 September 2006“If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.”In their words5 June 2006As quoted in "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker (5 June 2006)Read the whole statement

2005“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”In their words23 June 2005As quoted in "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, in The Wall Street Journal (23 June 2005)Read the whole statement

2003“People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.”In their words27 January 2003Gurley, George. "The Rage of Oriana Fallaci", (27 January 2003)Read the whole statement

“Americans," she said, repeating for me something she told the , "you have taught me this stupid word: cool. Cool, cool, cool! Coolness, coolness, you've got to be cool. Coolness!”In their words27 January 2003"The Rage of Oriana Fallaci", in The New York Observer (27 January 2003)Read the whole statement

2002“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense...”In their words22 October 2002A Sermon for the West">From "A Sermon for the West" By Oriana Fallaci - Oct. 22, 2002 Address to an audience at the American EnterpriseRead the whole statement

1973“Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot.”In their wordsJune 1973On Norodom Sihanouk, (June 1973), as quoted in Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011) p. 100Read the whole statement

1970Bancarella Literary PrizeAward1929Born29 June 1929

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Oriana Fallaci self portrait Rolleiflex

02 - Oriana Fallaci (ph. GianAngelo Pistoia)

03 - Oriana Fallaci (ph. GianAngelo Pistoia)

Controfagotto 1961 - Oriana Fallaci

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Heinz Riedt with Oriana Fallaci (photo taken in Cologne in 1987)

Leone Fallaci 1973

O. Fallaci 1 (Foto di GianAngelo Pistoia) cropped

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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...
Jun 5, 2006, As quoted in "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker (5 June 2006), Own words
If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
Jun 5, 2006, As quoted in "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker (5 June 2006), Own words
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
Jun 23, 2005, As quoted in "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, in The Wall Street Journal (23 June 2005), Own words

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Bancarella Literary Prize1970

Gold medal for merit in school, culture and art

Ambrogino d'oro

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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.

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