Jacek Hugo-Bader
Jacek Aleksander Hugo-Bader (born 9 March 1957[1] in Sochaczew) is a Polish reporter and journalist fascinated by Russia and the former Soviet Republics. Since 1990 he has worked for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.
He also used to work as a teacher, train loader, scale operator at a pig market, head of a distribution company, a part of the underground structure of Solidarity and a shopkeeper.
He travelled by bike through Central Asia, the Gobi Desert and China, and sailed through Lake Baikal in a canoe. In winter 2007 he made a lonely car journey from Moscow to Vladivostok which was the background of his first book White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia.
In 2011 he made a solitary hitchhike across Russia – from Magadan to Yakutsk. Reports describing encountered people's everyday lives were published in Gazeta Wyborcza during the journey and later gathered and released in the book Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland.[2]
He is a two-time laureate of Polish prize for the best journalists - Grand Press (in 1999 and 2003). Most of his works are about Russia: "(...) he describes the imperium from prospect of loitering dog, grasps mechanisms of thinking, behaviour, processes and a rat by its tail it addition."[3]
Books
- White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia (pol. Biała gorączka) (2009)
- (pol.) W rajskiej dolinie wśród zielska (2002)
- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland (pol. Dzienniki kołymskie) (2011)
- (pol.) Chłopcy z motylkami (2013)
- (pol.) Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak (2014)[4]
- (pol.) Skucha (2016) [5]
Films
- Jacek Hugo-Bader. Korespondent z Polszy (2007)
- Jak to się robi by Marcel Łoziński (2006)
- Zamek - series Nasz spis powszechny (2002)
- Ślad po meduzie (1998)[6]
References
- (in Polish) J. Hugo-Bader, Biała gorączka, Wołowiec 2009, pp. 13.
- author's catalogue on Czarne publishing house's website, retrieved 13-08-2014
- author's catalogue on Czarne publishing house's website, retrieved 13-08-2014
- author's catalogue on biblionetka.pl, retrieved 13-08-2014
- author's catalogue on biblionetka.pl, retrieved 07-01-2017
- Jacek Hugo-Bader in database filmpolski.pl
External links
- Interview by Andrew Jack translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (2014)