Polish reporter Kapuscinski dies

(In italiano)

Poland's most celebrated journalist and non-fiction writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, has died in Warsaw, aged 74, after a heart operation.

He made his name in Africa in the 1960s, where he was the Polish Press Agency's only correspondent.

He wrote widely on wars and dictators, chronicling the last days of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and the Shah of Iran.

He also wrote books on the fall of the Soviet Union, Angola's civil war and politics in Central America.

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