In the jubilee year — on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Ryszard Kapuściński’s birth and 15 years after his death — a memorial plaque was unveiled on the building in Warsaw’s Wola district where he lived and worked for more than two decades.

World-renowned reportage writer, poet, photographer, lived in this house from 1965 to 1988

— this is the inscription on the plaque now displayed on the wall of the building at Pustola Street 16 in Warsaw’s Wola district. It was there, for more than twenty years, that Ryszard Kapuściński returned from his many journeys. The place is, however, not widely known; more is said of the famous Finnish-style wooden house by Pole Mokotowskie park, where a reportage centre is to be created, and of the studio in the Kolonia Staszica estate, at the junction of Prokuratorska and Langiewicza streets. But it was in the small flat in Wola that such celebrated reportages as Christ with a Rifle on His Shoulder, The Soccer War, The Emperor, and Shah of Shahs were created.

The intimate ceremony of unveiling the memorial plaque was attended by the daughter of Alicja and Ryszard Kapuściński, Rene Maisner. The plaque was financed by the Ryszard Kapuściński Research and Education Centre; its originator was Izabella Podzińska, who has lived on Pustola Street since childhood and remembers Ryszard Kapuściński from those years.

We invite you to listen to the reportage made on the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial plaque at Pustola Street 16 in Warsaw’s Wola district.

Source: https://kultura.um.warszawa.pl/-/ryszard-kapuscinski-tablica-pamiatkowa-na-woli

source: kapuscinski.info