Fiammetta Rocco (Administrator - International Booker Prize) in Harshaneeyam Harshaneeyam

Our Guest for this episode is Fiammetta Rocco, Administrator for International Booker Prize since it was established in 2005.
Fiammetta spoke about her childhood in Nairobi, her love for books, her multilingualism, and the significance of the International Booker Prize to the world of literary fiction.
Fiammetta Rocco was an editor for 25 years at The Economist, specialising in books and arts.
Her journalism has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. Fiammetta has been the judge of numerous prizes for fiction and non-fiction and is also the administrator of the International Booker Prize. Of Franco-Italian origin, she grew up in Kenya and read Arabic at Oxford University. Her book, “The Miraculous Fever Tree”, about malaria and the discovery of quinine, was published in Britain and in America. She and her family live in London and Scotland.
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/judges/fiammetta-rocco
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