Witold Szabłowski

Witold Szabłowski is an award-winning journalist and non-fiction writer living in Warsaw. He was the youngest reporter on Gazeta Wyborcza, covering stories from Cuba to South Africa and Iceland. His features on 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 an English PEN award. How to Feed a Dictator, Through the Eyes of Their Cooks, is his latest book, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.