Witold Szablowski, author portrait
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Witold Szablowski

Witold Szabłowski is an award-winning Polish journalist and the author of What's Cooking in the Kremlin, How to Feed a Dictator, and Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny. When he was twenty-four he had a stint as a chef in Copenhagen, and at age twenty-five he became the youngest reporter at one of Poland’s largest daily newspapers, where he covered international stories in countries including Cuba, South Africa, and Iceland, and won awards for his features on the problem of illegal immigrants flocking to the European Union and the 1943 massacre of Poles in Ukraine. His book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won two awards and was nominated for Poland’s most prestigious literary prize. Szabłowski lives in Warsaw.
What's Cooking in the Kremlin
How to Feed a Dictator
Dancing Bears

Books

What's Cooking in the Kremlin
How to Feed a Dictator
Dancing Bears