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Guest Lecture | Aleksandra Wiktorowska (Warsaw / Nancy) - Ryszard Kapuściński in Latin America. Latin America in Kapuściński’s writing

Ryszard Kapuściński dedicated three of his book-length reportages to Latin America, Why Karl von Spreti Died? (1970) – a book about the assassination of the German ambassador in Guatemala, Christ With a Rifle on His Shoulder (1975) – which focuses on the partisan movements in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and The Soccer War (1978). He is as well the translator of Ernesto Che Guevara’s diary, El Diario de Che en Bolivia from Spanish to Polish. Invited by Gabriel García Márquez he gave classes in FNPI (Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano) in Mexico City (2001) and in Buenos Aires (2002).  He spent five years in Latin America (1967-1972) as a correspondent for Polish Press Agency (PAP), first based in Santiago, then in Rio de Janeiro, and afterward in Mexico City. During that time, he traveled around the continent (visited Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Uruguay) writing his correspondences, the majority of which has never been published and still, can only be found in archives of PAP. 
My idea is to show how Latin America’s experience is essential in the life of Kapuściński and his style of writing. To ask questions such as: is Latin American Journalism essentially militant or how much distance did literary journalist put between himself and the object of his writing. First, I would like to discuss his three books, showing particular characteristics of each and examine visible changes that occurred in reporter’s perspective and his writing about Latin America. Secondly, I would like to address the issue of ideologically engaged literary journalism. Finally, I would like to briefly show similarities and mutual inspirations between Kapu and Gabo. 

Aleksandra Wiktorowska holds a PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities from the University of Barcelona and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw. Since 2020 she is a member of a research team in the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies at the University of Warsaw and a post-doc within the French-Chilean CRÓNICA project at the Université de Lorraine in France. Her research interests include literary journalism and reportage, cultural studies, Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures, memory studies, postcolonialism and postmodernism. In addition to being a journalist, a researcher and an academic, she is a translator from Spanish to Polish with nine novels to her credit. She also co-edited (with Margarita Navarro Pérez and Mateus Yuri Passos) Literary Journalism and Latin American Wars (2020).
 

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