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