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Francesca Mannocchi, Italian journalist and writer, writes about migration and conflicts and contribute to Italian and international newspapers. She has covered several stories in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen. She has published: “Porti ciascuno la sua colpa” (Laterza, 2019), “Libia” (ink Mondadori, 2020), “Io Khaled vendo uomini e sono innocente” (Einaudi, 2019), “Bianco è il colore del danno” (Einaudi, 2021) and “Lo sguardo oltre il confine” (DeAgostini, 2022).

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was turned into an HBO adaptation. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, his most recent publication is A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, and will be released this August in Italian. His next book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2025. He teaches at the University of Southern California, where he is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English. All his books are translated into Italian by Neri Pozza.
ph. credits: BeBe Jacobs