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Obituary: Ryszard Kapuściński

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

Author: Victoria Brittain
Source: The Guardian, January 25, 2007
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/25/guardianobituaries.mainsection

Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info. The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available free of charge at The Guardian.

An obituary by Victoria Brittain — for many years The Guardian’s correspondent in Africa and Asia, and the author of books on Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Brittain was writing about Africa in much the same years as Kapuscinski, which gives her judgement unusual weight: she is not reviewing him from outside, but from the position of a witness to the same events.

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish Writer of Shimmering Allegories and News, Dies at 74

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Author: Michael T. Kaufman
Source: The New York Times, January 24, 2007
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/books/24kap.html

Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info. The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available at The New York Times (a subscription may be required).

The obituary of Ryszard Kapuscinski published by The New York Times on the day of the writer’s death, 23 January 2007. Michael T. Kaufman — himself a long-serving NYT foreign correspondent who knew Kapuscinski personally — draws a full portrait for an English-speaking readership.