Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007), born in Pińsk, in Polesia, now in Belarus, began as a poet at seventeen, then studied history at the University of Warsaw. A reporter at Sztandar Młodych, then at Polityka, he was from 1958 to 1972 a journalist and correspondent of the Polish Press Agency. A witness, by his own account, of twenty-seven revolutions, he found himself on the fronts of twelve wars and came close to being shot four times. Having become in the eighties the most translated Polish writer, he died in Warsaw on 23 January 2007.

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• EssayThe Emperor: Downfall of an AutocratCesarzRyszard Kapuściński · 1978Literature