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Viviana Mazza (born 15 June 1978, Catania Sicily) is a writer and a journalist at the foreign desk for the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. At Corriere she specializes in the Middle East, Pakistan, the USA, the UK, Nigeria and contributes to the La27Ora blog.
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- Servizio malala di viviana mazza
- Bookmania 11 04 2016 ragazze rubate intervista a viviana mazza
- Education and Work
- Awards
- References
In November 2015 (together with Paolo Valentino) she was the first European newspaper journalist to interview the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, after his election.
She has published the following books for Mondadori: Storia di Malala, Il Bambino Nelson Mandela and a version of the Storia di Malala book for younger children. In April 2016 she published Ragazze rubate, written with Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani. It tells the story of the young girls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram. In July 2016 a version for younger readers of Il Bambino Nelson Mandela was published.
In collaboration with Minna Proctor she translated Tullio Kezich's book Federico Fellini His Life and Work into English.
She contributed a chapter to Che cos'รจ l'ISIS, a collaborative effort by Corriere della Sera journalists.
Bookmania 11 04 2016 ragazze rubate intervista a viviana mazza
Education and Work
Mazza studied at the liceo classico Mario Cutelli in Catania. She then moved to Turin where she obtained her bachelor's degree at Turin University (2001). After Turin she won a Fulbright Scholarship and completed a Master of Science in Journalism at Columbia University, New York (2004). She was also awarded a Graduate Diploma in Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (2005).
She has worked for or collaborated with several newspapers and magazines: La Stampa, Giornale di Sicilia, Colors , Egypt Today.