Fiammetta Rocco Explained

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.

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

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

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.^{[4] [5]}

In 2021, Rocco was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.^[6]

References

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