https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/newsweek/Recent content in Newsweek on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USFri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/biografia/biografia-ryszarda-kapuscinskiego-zrodlo-newsweek/Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/biografia/biografia-ryszarda-kapuscinskiego-zrodlo-newsweek/<p>Master of literary reportage and the greatest writer among reporters — so people spoke of Ryszard Kapuściński. He was a traveller, reporter, and writer; from 1958 to 1972 a journalist and correspondent of the Polish Press Agency.</p> <p>Kapuściński, who in his books elevated reportage to <strong>the rank of a literary genre</strong>, joked that writing was &ldquo;terrible, physical work.&rdquo; Yet when asked why he had chosen this particular profession, he invariably answered that the reason was passion. &ldquo;What fascinated me was people, life, the world. I think that the condition for being a journalist is simply passion and curiosity about others and about otherness,&rdquo; he would stress. &ldquo;The reporter&rsquo;s duty is to be where something important is happening and to give an account of it,&rdquo; he added.</p>