Interviews From The Short Century

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Marco Lupis. Interviews From The Short Century

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About the author

INTERVIEWS FROM THE SHORT CENTURY

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Introduction

Tertium non datur

Subcomandante Marcos

We shall overcome! (Eventually)

Peter Gabriel

The eternal showman

Claudia Schiffer

The fairest of them all

Gong Li

Moonstruck

Íngrid Betancourt

The Pasionaria of the Andes

Aung San Suu Kyi

Free from fear

Lucía Pinochet

Death, torture and disappearance

Mireya García

To forgive is impossible

Kenzaburō Ōe

Re-shaping the contemporary novel

Benazir Bhutto

The tragic fate of a powerful woman

King Constantine II of Greece

Greek to the core

Hun Sen

The ghosts of Pol Pot

Roh Moo-hyun

Korean diplomacy

Hubert de Givenchy

A stylish aristocrat

Maria Dolors Miró

Hemingway in the ring

Tamara Nijinsky

The daughter of ‘God’s clown’

Franco Battiato

A Sufi and his music

Ivano Fossati

The reluctant rocker

Tinto Brass

A fair crack

Peter Greenaway

Cinema as art

Suso Cecchi d’Amico

A Visconti girl at heart

Rocco Forte

The high-class hotelier

Nicolas Hayek

Mr Swatch

Roger Peyrefitte

A century of scandals

José Luis de Vilallonga

The imperfect gentleman

Teresa Cordopatri

Standing up to the mafia

Andrea Muccioli

The rehab clinic heir

Xanana Gusmão

The whisper of independence

José Ramos-Horta

A life dedicated to East Timor

Basilio do Nascimento

The brave bishop

Khalida Messaoudi

Living with a death sentence

Leonora Jakupi

No time for pop stars

Lee Kuan Yew

The lion in winter

Khushwant Singh

The Sikh Rushdie

Shobhaa De

A very Indian scandal

Joan Chen

Exposing the Cultural Revolution

Carlos Saúl Menem

Pulling Argentina back from the brink

Pauline Hanson

Red Pauline and the angry white men

Dmitri Volkogonov

Unmasking the real Lenin

Gao Xingjian

A Chinese Nobel man

Wang Dan

The (other) boy in Tiananmen Square

Zhang Liang

WikiLeaks, Chinese style

Stanley Ho

The king of gambling

Palden Gyatso

A wrong answer

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

A woman for the Philippines

Cardinal (Jaime) Sin

What's in a name?

Võ Nguyên Giáp

The gentle general

Sergio Corsini

Fifty years on borrowed time

Macram Max Gassis

Daily terror in Sudan

Men Songzhen

The woman who touched up Chairman Mao

Epilogue

The interviewer becomes the interviewee

Acknowledgements

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