Fiammetta Rocco is a journalist and author. She is a Senior Editor at The Economist.[1]

Rocco was born to a Franco-Italian family and grew up in Kenya. She went on to study Arabic at the University of Oxford.[2]

Rocco is the Administrator of the International Booker Prize[2][3] and she is on the board of directors for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.[4]

She was the Culture Editor at The Economist between 2003 and 2018.[1]

In 2003, she published a book called The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World about the discovery of quinine, which was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.[5][6]

In 2021, Rocco was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fiammetta Rocco". Economist. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  2. 1 2 "Fiammetta Rocco | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  3. 1 2 "Fiammetta Rocco". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  4. ↑ "Staff | Edinburgh International Book Festival". www.edbookfest.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  5. ↑ "ISBN 9780060199517 - The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  6. ↑ Prize -, The Orwell. "Fiammetta Rocco | The Orwell Foundation". www.orwellfoundation.com. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
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