Francesca Mannocchi

Italian journalist and author
  • Writer

Francesca Mannocchi (born 1 October 1981) is an Italian journalist and writer.

Biography

Mannocchi worked as a freelancer and collaborated with various television channels and newspapers, both Italian, such as L'Espresso[1] and La7[2] and international, for example Al Jazeera and The Guardian,[3][4] dealing with migrations and conflicts concerning mainly the countries of the Arab League and Turkey.[5]

She won several awards, including the 2016 Premiolino, the Premio Rizzi per il Giornalismo,[6] and the 2022 European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism.[7]

In 2018, along with photographer Alessio Romenzi, Mannocchi co-wrote and co-directed the documentary Isis, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul,[8] which premiered at the 75th Venice Film Festival.[9] In 2019, she published her debut novel, Io Khaled vendo uomini e sono innocente (Einaudi),[10] the story of a trafficker of human beings, earning the Premio Estense.[11] That same year, she described the conflicts in the Middle East in Porti ciascuno la sua colpa (Laterza)[12] and published Libia (Mondadori), a work of graphic journalism illustrated by Gianluca Costantini.[13]

In 2021, Mannocchi published her sophomore novel Bianco è il colore del danno (Einaudi).[14] In 2022, she carried off the Flaiano Award for Journalism[15] and published Lo sguardo oltre il confine (DeAgostini), where Mannocchi for the first time narrates the current conflicts addressing the younger audiences.[16] Since 2022, she has been sent to La7 for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[17]

Books

  • Se chiudo gli occhi..., con illustrazioni di Diala Brisly, Roma, Round Robin Editrice, 2019, ISBN 978-88-94-95319-0
  • Io Khaled vendo uomini e sono innocente, Torino, Einaudi, 2019. ISBN 88-062-4090-0
  • Porti ciascuno la sua colpa: Cronache dalle guerre dei nostri tempi, Roma, Editori Laterza, 2019, ISBN 978-88-58-13402-3
  • Libia, con illustrazioni di Gianluca Costantini, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2019, ISBN 88-047-0553-1
  • Bianco è il colore del danno, Torino, Einaudi, 2021, ISBN 88-062-4717-4
  • Lo sguardo oltre il confine, Milano, De Agostini, 2022, ISBN 979-12-21-20118-5

Personal life

She is engaged to photojournalist Alessio Romenzi, with whom she presented the documentary Isis, Tomorrow. Lost Souls of Mosul,[18] at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Protagonisti".
  2. ^ "Attentati a Kabul, l'analisi di Francesca Mannocchi".
  3. ^ "Internazionale a Ferrara – Protagonisti".
  4. ^ "Francesca Mannocchi giornalista freelance".
  5. ^ "Francesca Mannocchi".
  6. ^ "PREMIO RIZZI 2022 A MANNOCCHI, MARAINI E FIGLIUOLO".
  7. ^ "Journalismprize 2022: vincono Francesca Mannocchi, Gabriele Micalizzi e Nello Scavo".
  8. ^ "ISIS, TOMORROW – The Lost Souls of Mosul".
  9. ^ "Isis, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls Of Mosul Directed By Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi".
  10. ^ "Io Khaled vendo uomini e sono innocente".
  11. ^ "Francesca Mannocchi vincitrice del Premio Estense 2019".
  12. ^ "LA POTENZA DEL LIBRO DI FRANCESCA MANNOCCHI, PORTI CIASCUNO LA SUA COLPA".
  13. ^ "Gianluca Costantini, Francesca Mannocchi LIBIA".
  14. ^ "Bianco è il colore del danno".
  15. ^ https://www.premiflaiano.com/500/2022.html
  16. ^ "Francesca Mannocchi: un libro per aiutare i giovani a volgere "lo sguardo oltre il confine"".
  17. ^ "Ucraina, una guerra senza fine: il reportage di Francesca Mannocchi".
  18. ^ "Francesca Mannocchi, il marito Alessio Romenzi nato a Terni: da operaio a fotografo pluripremiato". Archived from the original on 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  19. ^ "Cinema – Isis, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul – Fuori Concorso".

External links

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  • Francesca Mannocchi at IMDb