Jacek Hugo-Bader

{{Short description|Polish reporter and journalist}} 245px|thumb|Jacek Hugo-Bader in 2010

'''Jacek Aleksander Hugo-Bader''' (born 9 March 1957<ref>{{in lang|pl}} J. Hugo-Bader, Biała gorączka, Wołowiec 2009, pp. 13.</ref> in Sochaczew) is a Polish journalist and journalist who mainly reports on matters related to Russia and former Soviet Republics. Since 1990 he has worked for the ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' newspaper.

==Life and career== 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''.<ref>[http://czarne.com.pl/katalog/autorzy/jacek-hugo-bader author's catalogue on Czarne publishing house's website], retrieved 13-08-2014</ref>

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.''"<ref>[http://czarne.com.pl/katalog/autorzy/jacek-hugo-bader author's catalogue on Czarne publishing house's website], retrieved 13-08-2014</ref>

The journalist appeared in blackface at a Polish Independence Day celebration on November 11, 2016, as part of a reporting project on street reactions to a black person.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fact Check: A Jewish Journalist Did NOT Apply Blackface To Establish A Black Lives Matter Center In Poland {{!}} Lead Stories|url=https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/06/fact-check-polish-man-did-not-appear-in-blackface-to-establish-black-lives-matter-group.html|access-date=2021-12-02|website=leadstories.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

==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)<ref>[http://www.biblionetka.pl/author.aspx?id=7930 author's catalogue] on biblionetka.pl, retrieved 13-08-2014</ref> * (pol.) Skucha (2016) <ref>[http://www.biblionetka.pl/author.aspx?id=7930 author's catalogue] on biblionetka.pl, retrieved 07-01-2017</ref>

==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)<ref>[http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/1190392 Jacek Hugo-Bader] in database filmpolski.pl</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.pushkinhouse.org/blog/interview-with-jacek-hugo-bader?rq=hugo-bader Interview] by Andrew Jack translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (2014)

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