Viviana Mazza | |
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 Mazza in 2016 | |
| Born | June 15, 1978 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist |
Viviana Mazza (born 15 June 1978, Catania, Sicily) is a writer and a journalist at the foreign desk for the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera . At Corriere she specializes in covering the United States and the Middle East. She has also covered, among other countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. She edits the America-Cina newsletter and contributes to the La27Ora blog. [1] [2]
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In November 2015 (together with Paolo Valentino) she was the first European newspaper journalist to interview the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, after his election. [3] [4]
On November 1, 2022, Mazza became only the second woman to be the US correspondent for Corriere della Sera. [5]
She has published the following books for Mondadori: Storia di Malala (July 2013), Il Bambino Nelson Mandela (November 2014) and a version of the Storia di Malala book for younger children (September 2015). [6] In April 2016 she published Ragazze rubate, written with Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani. It tells the story of the young girls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram. [7] In July 2016 a version for younger readers of Il Bambino Nelson Mandela was published. [8] In October 2018 she published Guerrieri di sogni. Storie e paesi che dovresti conoscere. [9] In May 2019 she published Greta. La ragazza che sta cambiando il mondo. [10] In June 2020 she published La ragazza che imparò a volare. Storia di Simone Biles. [11] In May 2021 Mondadori published Il bambino fiocco di neve in a special easy-to-read edition for children and people with reading difficulties. [11] In September 2021 Mondadori published Il potere della musica , a story taken from Guerrieri di sogni. Storie e paesi che dovresti conoscere with new, original illustrations by Paolo d'Altan. [12] In October 2021 Mondadori published Io dico no al razzismo written together with Kibra Sebhat. [13]
In collaboration with Minna Proctor she translated Tullio Kezich's book Federico Fellini His Life and Work into English. [14]
She contributed a chapter to Che cos'è l'ISIS, a collaborative effort by Corriere della Sera journalists. [15]
In March 2019 Solferino Libri published Le ragazze di via Rivoluzione. [16]
22 June 2019. She was made an honorary citizen of Solarino, a town in the province of Syracuse, Sicily: the birthplace of her mother and grandmother. [17]
