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Independently of her past 6 year’s strong views about the world, and that is been called “racist” I declare myself an Oriana Fallaci’s admirer http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriana_Fallaci. Oriana was an itaiian writer and journalist.
My admiration starts with her strong, direct and at the same time “feminine” way of writing, her ability to be in the right place at the right time, her presence as a witness of history, her intelligence and passion.
I remember my first “encounter” with Oriana Fallaci, Carlos point me out her book “An Interview with history” around 1988 just after two years of the book’s launch (no internet or Amazon near by, remember).
I read the book from top to bottom in one go (good old ways).
This book is a sort of compilation of several interviews with XX century leaders around the world.
She interviewed Henry Kissinger, Sha de Persia, ayatollah Jomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar Gaddafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yaser Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Golda Meir, Haile Selassie, Mao Tse Tung, John and Robert Kennedy and Sean Connery.
I own her my inquisitorial way of questioning and she was partly responsible for shaping the way I think (now you all know who to blame).
I am terrible sorry she is dead.
