Francesca Mannocchi

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

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

Mannocchi worked as a freelancer and collaborated with various television channels and newspapers, both Italian, such as L'Espresso¹ and La7² and international, for example Al Jazeera and The Guardian,³⁴ 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 Journalism¹⁵ 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

• 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

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

She has multiple sclerosis.²⁰