{"alternate_names": ["Fallaci, Oriana, 1st", "Fallaci Oriana", "ORIANA FALLACI", "oriana fallaci"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [10449968], "death_date": "15 Sep 2006", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "27064159", "wikidata": "Q153700", "isni": "0000000108814058"}, "key": "/authors/OL781814A", "personal_name": "Oriana Fallaci", "name": "Oriana Fallaci", "source_records": ["bwb:9798888040041", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-04-19", "amazon:849734216X", "ia:bwb_W9-CUX-145"], "birth_date": "29 Jun 1929", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 \u2013 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 \"long, aggressive and revealing interviews\" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.\r\n\r\nHer 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\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u, and North Vietnamese General V\u00f5 Nguy\u00ean Gi\u00e1p 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 Wa\u0142\u0119sa, Muammar Gaddafi, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, M\u00e1rio Soares, Alfred Hitchcock, and many others.\r\n\r\nAfter 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.\r\n\r\n**Source**: [Oriana Fallaci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriana_Fallaci) on Wikipedia."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-08T19:46:21.525467"}}