Which Polish journalist wrote The Emperor (Cesarz), a book about the court of Haile Selassie?
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Correct answer: A. Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Step 1: Kapuscinski turned his reportage on the last years of the Ethiopian emperor into a literary study of power. Answer: Ryszard Kapuscinski. Why not the others: Czeslaw Milosz, Stanislaw Lem and Jerzy Giedroyc don't fit.
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