Witold Szablonski
Author · 7 books
Witold Szabłowski is an award-winning Polish journalist. At age twenty-five he became the youngest reporter at the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza’s weekly supplement, Duży Format, where he covered international stories in countries including Cuba, South Africa, and Iceland. His features on the problem of illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize; his reportage on the 1943 massacre of Poles in Ukraine won the Polish Press Agency’s Ryszard Kapuściński Award; and his book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won the Beata Pawlak Award and an English PEN award, and was nominated for the Nike Award, Poland’s most prestigious literary prize. Szabłowski lives in Warsaw.
Books
Sprawiedliwi zdrajcy. Sąsiedzi z Wołynia
2016
Made in Poland. Antologia reporterów Dużego Formatu
2013
Dancing Bears
True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
2014
The Killer from the City of Apricots. Reports from Turkey
2010
20 lat nowej Polski w reportażach według Mariusza Szczygła
2009
How to Feed a Dictator
Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
2019
What's Cooking in the Kremlin
From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
2021
