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Inge Feltrinelli is dead

Photographer-publisher wanted to change world with books

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Rome, September 20 - Italian photographer and publisher Inge Feltrinelli has died at the age of 87, sources said on Thursday.
    A naturalised Italian who was born in Germany to Jewish parents in November 1930, she started out as a photographer and took shots of influential figures such as Greta Garbo, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Winston Churchill. She married leftwing publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in 1960 and took over running his publishing house after he died in 1972 having become a clandestine militant. A woman who wanted to change the world with books, Amos Oz described her as "an authentic volcano of ideas, curiosity, kindness".
   

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