Gaia Servadio (1938-2021) lived in London for over fifty years. She wrote regularly for “The Times”, “The Sunday Times”, “The Observer”, “The Daily Telegraph”, “Corriere della Sera” and “La Stampa”. She was a war correspondent during the Six-Day War, and lived in Syria, France, and the USSR (but she wasn’t a spy). She was vice-president of the Foreign Press Association in London. She worked for radio and television and in Hollywood. She was part of the London Symphony Orchestra executive, organised the Festival Mahler and the Second School of Vienna alongside Claudio Abbado, and collaborated with Teatro Massimo in Palermo. She was awarded the title of Cavaliere Ufficiale della Repubblica by President Sandro Pertini, and later, for musical merit, the title of Commendatore by President Giorgio Napolitano. She gived talks all over the world. She published over twenty books including essays, narrative non-fiction, novels and biographies, many of which have been translated into several languages. In 2014, Feltrinelli published her autobiography Raccogliamo le vele.