Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and author, has died
by sernabad
Ryszard Kapuscinski, a world-renowned Polish journalist and author, died yesterday in Warsaw.
Kapuscinski’s personal reporting of political events, a style he referred as “literature by foot.,” transcended the bounds of traditional journalism with his inclusion of illustrative examples of magical realism,
His 1978 book about Ethiopian leader, Haile Selassie, The Emperor:Downfall of an Autocrat first brought him to the world’s attention. Among his impressive body of work, he wrote about Latin America (The Soccer War) and Angola (Another Day of Life).
Kapuscinski was 74.
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