His dispatches provided fodder for numerous, big-selling books including "The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat" (1978), about Ethiopia's last emperor Haile Selassie or "Shah of Shahs" (1982), about the decline and fall of the last Shah of Iran.
Many were translated into some 30 languages, making him one of Poland's most translated contemporary writers.
Yet "some of Ryszard Kapuscinski's books should be placed in the category of novels rather than strict reportage," said author Artur Domoslawski, himself a journalist who was both an acquaintance and disciple of Kapuscinski.
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