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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk [1] ( [tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, [2] and public intellectual. [3] She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer who was known for her wry and complex novels, including Primeval and Other Times (1996) and Flights (2017). A best-selling author in Poland, Tokarczuk received worldwide attention when she won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. Read more about her life and career.
Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's most celebrated and beloved authors, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, as well as her country's highest literary honor, the Nike.
Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018. Born: 29 January 1962, Sulechów, Poland. Residence at the time of the award: Wroclaw, Poland. Prize motivation: “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life” Olga Tokarczuk received her Nobel Prize in 2019. Prize share: 1/1.
Olga Tokarczuk. Biographical. @ Nobel Media. Photo: A. Mahmoud. I’d like to write this autobiographical sketch in a concise, chronological way, based on the reliable passage of time and its usual markers – the years.
Jan 31, 2022 · Olga Tokarczuk approaches fiction in a way uniquely suited to the fragmentation of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, collapsing boundaries among time periods and countries.
In this interview from the Nobel Banquet on 10 December 2019, Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk talks about her childhood dream of being a scientist, curiosity as motivation and the importance of translators.
Jul 29, 2019 · Olga Tokarczuk is fascinated by Poland’s long history of ethnic intermingling. Photograph by Tomasz Lazar for The New Yorker. The Warsaw Book Fair takes place each May in the National...
Olga Tokarczuk is young for a Nobel Prize winner. She received the award four years ago, at fifty-seven, for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
Nov 21, 2022 · That is what the Polish psychologist turned poet and novelist Olga Tokarczuk explores in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
