Wojciech Jagielski
Wojciech Jagielski (born 1960) is a Polish journalist, correspondent and writer who has won acclaim for his reports on journeys to the world’s worst trouble spots. He has reported mainly from conflict zones in the Transcaucasus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa, and he worked for the Polish Press Agency and Gazeta Wyborcza before joining the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. His books include A Good Place To Die (about his years travelling through the Caucasus and Transcaucasian regions during the fall of the Soviet Empire), Prayer for The Rain (on Afghanistan), Towers Of Stone (on Chechnya), The Night Wanderers (about child soldiers in Uganda), Burning the Grass (on post-apartheid South Africa), and East of The West (on old hippies and war correspondents).