Ryszard Kapuściński
LITERATURE 3
Ryszard Kapuściński
Born in
Pinsk in 1932, Ryszard Kapuściński is the pre-eminent writer among Polish
reporters. After honing his skills on domestic stories, he travelled
throughout the world and reported on several dozen wars, coups and
revolutions in America, Asia, and especially in Africa, where he witnessed the
liberation from colonialism. He has devoted several books to Africa, including
‘the Ebony’.
After earning a reputation as an insightful reporter, Kapuściński amazed
his readers in the 1970s with a series of books of increasing literary
craftsmanship, in which the narrative technique, psychological portraits of
the characters, wealth of stylisation and metaphor, and the unusual imagery
served as means of interpreting the perceived world.
Kapuściński’s best-known book is just such a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie’s anachronistic regime in Ethiopia – ‘the Emperor’, which has been translated into many languages. ‘Shah of Shahs’, about the last Shah of Iran, and ‘Imperium’, about the last days of the Soviet Union, have enjoyed similar success.
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