New book claims journalist repeatedly crossed boundary between reportage and fiction-writingHe has been voted the greatest journalist of the 20th century. In an unparalleled career, Ryszard Kapuscinski transformed the humble job of reporting into a literary art, chronicling the wars, coups and bloody revolutions that shook Africa and Latin America in the 1960s and 70s.
But a new book claims that the legendary Polish journalist, who died three years ago aged 74, repeatedly crossed the boundary between reportage and fiction-writing – or, to put it less politely, made stuff up.
Read more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/ryszard-kapuscinski-accused-fiction-biography
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