Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski - 9780228014485

McGill-Queen's University Press

Ryszard Kapu?ci?skiBiography of a Writer\nAuthor(s): Beata Nowacka, Zygmunt Zi?tek, Lindsay Davidson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228014485, 978-0228014485\nSynopsis\nAn award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski [tel] was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapu?ci?ski gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience.\n\nThe first posthumous monograph on the writers life and work, Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski confronts the mixed reception of Kapu?ci?skis tendency to merge the conventions of reportage with the artistry of literature. Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Zi?tek discuss the writers accounts of the decolonization of Africa and his work in Asia and South America between 1956 and 1981, .