Witold Szabłowski. Ostrów Mazowiecka (Poland), 1980. An award-winning Polish journalist and writer, Szabłowski graduated from the Department of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw and lived and studied for a year in Turkey; That is why much of his journalistic work deals with Turkish issues. At 25, he was the youngest reporter for the weekly supplement of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, where he covered international stories in countries like Cuba, South Africa and Iceland. His works on the problem of illegal immigrants who come to the EU won the European Parliament Prize for Journalism, and his report on the massacre of Poles in Ukraine in 1943, which recounts the fate of the victims and witnesses of the massacres of Poles. in Volhynia between 1943 and 1944, focusing on people who, at great personal risk, provided help to their Polish or Jewish neighbors, is considered one of the best reports on the subject and won the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize from the Polish Press Agency. His book on Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won the Beata Pawlak Award and a PEN award, and was nominated for the Nike Award, the most prestigious in Poland. Szabłowski also won the 2007 Melchior Wańkowicz Prize for his honest documentation of aspects of Turkish society that are not widely known outside the country, and in 2008 he received an honorable mention from Amnesty International for his report on Turkish honor killings.