Ryszard Kapuscinski Included 'Some Fictional Elements' In Renowned Global Reporting: Book

WARSAW, Poland — A new biography of celebrated Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski suggests that his riveting coverage of global events in the 1960s and 1970s included some fictional elements.

The book, "Kapuscinski Non-Fiction," by Artur Domoslawski also revisits already acknowledged claims that Kapuscinski provided information and analyses on politics in Africa and Latin America to Poland's communist leaders.

Domoslawski knocks down claims that Kapuscinski had met and befriended Che Guevara, Salvador Allende and Patrice Lumumba, saying the journalist never published interviews with them nor met them, but his writing was so suggestive that it made readers think he did.

The tome hit bookstores in Poland this week.