Oriana Fallaci, 1930 - 2006
Oriana Fallaci, journalist and author, died of cancer at the age of 77.
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Fallaci, who had been ill with cancer for several years, died at a private clinic in her home city of Florence overnight, said Paolo Klun, of the RCS publishing group, which published Fallaci's work. She had returned to Florence in the last days of her life after living for decades in New York… Small, beautiful, and extraordinarily tough, Fallaci was an Italian resistance fighter who became a war correspondent in the 1950s and 1960s, covering the Vietnam War and conflicts in the Middle East and Latin America. She was shot three times and beaten by Mexican police covering student riots in 1968. |
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2359546,00.html
Back in March, I wrote about how the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, famous for selling banned books, refused to sell Oriana Fallaci's book The Force of Reason. "We don't carry books by fascists," said the clerk.
A truly unbelievable response, considering it was fascists during World War II and more recently Islamic fascists, that she was railing against. As Cathy Seipp wrote of the incident, "It's particularly repugnant that someone who fought against actual fascism in World War II should be deemed a fascist by a snotty San Francisco clerk."
Rest in peace Ms. Fallaci, though we'll never compare to you, we'll do our best to continue the fight.