by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433925459
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«Ébano» is the book of reportage by Ryszard Kapuściński, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Kapuściński travels through Africa far from clichés and stereotypes and narrates from within what he finds: poor houses, diseases such as cerebral malaria and situations of extreme danger. The result is a lucid portrait of a continent marked by wars, misery and injustice, told with a reporter's eye and a writer's talent.
Volume 45 of the Crónicas collection; translation by Agata Orzeszek Sujak. Winner of the Viareggio Prize; the author received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 2003.
For readers of narrative journalism, travel writing and Africa; a reference work by Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuściński.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
