Polish reporter Kapuscinski dies (BBC) (1932-2007)

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

He made his name in Africa in the 1960s, where he was the Polish Press Agency's only foreign 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 and Central America.
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Sent abroad in 1959, he was given the job of covering Africa single-handed for the Polish press, travelling widely across the continent and reporting on a number of wars.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6293005.stm

I started reading his "Shadow of the Sun" not too long ago. An interesting writer; I'd love to get more of his books. Sad to see there will be no more works from him.