He won international acclaim for chronicling the world's wars

Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who won international acclaim for chronicling the world's wars, died Tuesday in Warsaw at age 74.

Kapuscinski began his career in the late 1950s as a correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, or PAP, covering dozens of conflicts, coups and revolutions across the globe.

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Among his best known books, translated into 30 languages, is The Emperor which describes the downfall of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia.

Shah of Shahs describes the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and Imperium chronicles the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Kapuscinski was born in 1932 in the town of Pinsk, now part of Belarus.

Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.