Wojciech Jagielski (born 12 September 1960) is a

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journalist and author. He has won acclaim for his reportage from conflict zones in the

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. He worked for the leading Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, from 1991 to 2012, in addition to contributing to the

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martial law in Poland

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Books

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''Pray for the Rain'' (Modlitwa o deszcz), Jagielski's collection of writings about

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, was published in 2002. The result of eleven trips to Afghanistan between the spring of 1992 and the autumn of 2001, Pray for the Rain chronicles the bloody rise and fall of regimes in the region. Featuring well-known figures such as Osama bin Laden, Ahmad Shah Massoud,

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and Najibullah Zazi, the book was nominated for the NIKE Award 2003 and received an Amber Butterfly in the Arkady Fiedler Competition and the Józef Tischner Award. In 2004, Jagielski published ''Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya'' (Wieże z kamienia). It was translated into English by Soren A. Gauger and published by Seven Stories Press in 2009. The winner of the 2009 Letterature Dal Fronte, Jagielski presents the bitter story of war in Chechnya and the conflict between groups of warriors with their leaders:

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and

Aslan Maskhadov Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (russian: Асла́н (Хали́д) Али́евич Масха́дов; ce, Масхадан Али-воӀ Аслан (Халид), Masxadan Ali-voj Aslan (Xalid); 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was ...

, against the powerful Russian army. Jagielski's next book to appear in English, ''The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army'' (Nocni wędrowcy), was published by Seven Stories Press in 2012. The book chronicles the plight of child soldiers in

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as they flee the aggressive reach of the

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(LRA) and their brutal leader

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. In 2015, Seven Stories Press published ''Burning the Grass: At the Heart of Change in South Africa 1990-2011'', which examines the 2010 murder of South African white supremacist and leader of the far-right political party

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as refugees from the

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s, was published in 2020 by Seven Stories Press. The book focuses on the plight of a Chechen-Georgian woman as she travels to Syria to bring her radicalized son home.

Honors and awards

* 2009: in recognition of his valuable and bold reporting of international issues,

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, Minister of Foreign Affairs, awarded him with the ''

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/ref> * Polish Journalists Association (SDP) Awards (1996) * The Ksawery Pruszyński Award of Polish PEN Club (1996) * The Warsaw Literary Premiere Award (2002) * Dariusz Fikus Award (2002) * Józef Tischner Award (2003) * Amber Butterfly in Arkady Fiedler Competition (2003) * MediaTory Student Journalist Award (2008) * Literatura Frontera Award (2009)

References

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