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An Interview by Bill Buford

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Author: Bill Buford source: Granta magazine date: 1987-01-01 ——————————————————————–

Bill Buford: Your first book to be published in English was The Emperor, and that appeared only four years ago. But you had been writing for nearly thirty years before your two translators, an American and a Pole, took it upon themselves to translate your book and submit it to an American publisher. What do you feel we should know about those years before the writing of The Emperor?

It Was a Small Dog, a Japanese Breed

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

In those unbelievable times ordinary Poles got up at dawn to stand in line in front of a bookstore, to hunt down their dream book. They followed world politics avidly, and knew more about the Third World than the British and French combined.

You could say that in communist Poland, people hunted for books because everything was in short supply, while rooting for Patrice Lumumba, concern for the fate of Allende or following the stormy life of Che Guevara was a substitute for the complete lack of political attractions in a country ruled by communists.

Polish Writer Ryszard Kapuscinski Dies

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world, died following heart surgery, his publisher said. He was 74.

Kapuscinski died Tuesday at Warsaw’s Banacha hospital, said Marek Zakowski, president of the Czytelnik publishing house, which published several of Kapuscinski’s books and is editing a new one, ‘‘Lappidarium 6.’’ Zakowski declined to give any more details about the surgery or the precise cause of death.

Prominent Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski dies at 74

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

WARSAW, Poland: Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world, has died. He was 74.

Kapuscinski died Tuesday at Warsaw’s Banacha hospital of a heart attack following an operation, Czeslaw Apiecionek, one of Kapuscinski’s literary agents, told The Associated Press. He would give no other details. But a friend of Kapuscinski, Miroslaw Ikonowicz, was quoted by the news agency PAP as saying Kapuscinski died of a heart attack after undergoing an operation on a tumor on Friday.