Lapidarium iv ryszard kapuscinski biography

Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author (1932–2007)

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For the composer, see Jarosław Kapuściński.

Ryszard Kapuściński (Polish:[ˈrɨʂartkapuˈɕt͡ɕij̃skʲi]^ⓘ; 4 March 1932 – 23 January 2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author.

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize forLiterature, Ryszard Kapuściński () was a celebrated Polishjournalist and author.

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize forLiterature, Ryszard Kapuściński () was a celebrated Polishjournalist and author.

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Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author.

LAPIDARIUM IV. Autor / Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Born in Pinsk, now in Belarus, in , Kapuscinski is the pre-eminent writer among Polish reporters.

Among Poland's most prolific non-fiction writers, known for his incisive and very personal accounts of political and social upheavals across the world.

He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature.^[1] He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia.

Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre.

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