Francesca Mannocchi

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]

• 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 suffers from multiple sclerosis.^[20]