Francesca Marino is an Italian freelance journalist specialised on South Asia. 

She writes regularly for Limes–Italian Review of geopolitics and some other Italian and Swiss media. 
She won the Italian journalism prize ‘Il Luigiano d’oro’ in 2010. 

Francesca is also a photographer and her photo reportages had been published in international magazines like Geo. 

She authored two books: India in 100 Immagini published in 2007 by Laterza in Rome and (with Beniamino Natale) Apocalypse Pakistan, published in Italia by Memori and in India by Niyogi. 

She has also translated a few books on Indian philosophy from English into Italian