george.carrano on "Ryszard Kapuscinski: from Poland to the world"

george.carrano — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:37:26 +0000

Excellent, perspective and well-deserved.

Ryszard Kapuscinski: from Poland to the world, Neal Ascherson

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The death of Ryszard Kapuściński on 23 January 2007 in Warsaw shocked friends, colleagues and readers all over the world. He was 74, but somehow we had all assumed that this small rugged man with the sly smile was indestructible. He had survived so much. The Soviet and then Nazi occupation of his homeland, twenty-seven (or was it twenty-eight?) revolutions and coups all over the world, escape from at least four executions and an near-lethal attack of cerebral malaria in Tanzania, even the smoke, alcohol and stress of a Polish journalist's life - none of these seemed to affect him. He grew a little quieter, as if intimidated by his own fame, but that was all.

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Ryszard Kapuscinski: from Poland to the world, Neal Ascherson