Oriana Fallaci - Dead at 66 For over six decades, she fought against those she has labeled “the bastards who decide our lives,” opposing all forms of tyranny and oppression, from Mussolini and Hitler to Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Born in 1930 in Florence, Italy, brought up in an anti-fascist family and her father was a leader in the fight against Mussolini. At age 14, Ms Fallaci took part in the Resistance.
At 16 (after lying about her age) began covering police and hospital topics. Here is how she has described the writing experience: I sat at the typewriter for the first time and fell in love with the words that emerged like drops, one by one, and remained on the white sheet of paper ... every drop became something that if spoken would have flown away, but on the sheets as words, became solidified, whether they were good or bad.
Rolling Stone magazine described Oriana Fallaci as "the greatest political interviewer of modern times."
By the end of her life, Fallaci was the author of 14 books, of which 12 had been translated into English. She published the first one in 1958, at the age of 28. Called The Seven Sins of Hollywood, prefaced by Orson Welles. Her last book, an anti-Islamist pamphlet entitled The Force of Reason, was published only this spring. Her magnum opus, Interview with History (1976).
In 2002, after a silence of some 20 years, the enfant terrible was commissioned by Milan's Corriere Della Sera after the events of 9/11, it sounded shrill, intemperate, but not inaccurate warnings about "these sons of Allah" and their civilization overrunning Europe.
The Rage and the Pride, Fallaci's pamphlet sold a million copies in Italy, and became nbr.1 on non-fiction bestseller lists in France & Germany. Christopher Caldwell described her book "a philippic against Islamist terrorism and the cowardly Western elites who have permitted it to blossom in their midst" www.italian.about.com/library/fallaci/blfallaci01.htm www.giselle.com/oriana.html
A good tribute..she was an uncomforting and brave woman.I hope you don't mind...I did a fiddle,as think,simple b&w (only a touch of life in the sculpture) would do well also. Ursula
Nice story about the lady that lived her life for purpose, great tribute for the lady that told rather than asked. Great composition with open space ahead. Cool, NJ
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