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

Francesca Mannocchi
Mannocchi at the 2024 Turin International Book Fair
Born (1981-10-01) 1 October 1981 (age 43)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Occupation

Biography

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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

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  • 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

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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]

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