In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuscinski’s life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziatek confront the mixed reception of the writer’s use of the Polish concept of literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose, and identify this tension as the driving force behind Kapuscinski’s legacy.  Meer

Controversial biography of the twentieth-century master of literary reportage  Meer

The best of Kapuscinski's published poems, offered for the first time in English.  Meer

'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read.' - Michael Ignatieff  Meer

After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories.  Meer

Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time).  Meer

Creates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practices we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination.  Meer

Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power.  Meer

In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of a city and a country that seemed, for a prolonged period, to have taken leave of the world, to enter a nightmare of anarchy.  Meer

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West's encounters with the non-European.  Meer

Examines Kapuscinski's reportage books, products of the author's travels to distant lands, regarded by some as exempla of mastery in nonfiction genre and by others as ethically questionable semi-fictional stories.  Meer

Imperium is het verhaal van een rijk: de Unie van Socialistische Sovjetrepublieken. Toen Russische matrozen in 1939 Kapuściński’s geboorteplaats in Polen binnentrokken was dat het begin van een levenslange fascinatie.  Meer