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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.
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.
May 10, 2024 · 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. 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.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"
Jul 29, 2019 · Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism In the face of the Polish government’s rightist dogma, the country’s preëminent writer explores its history of ethnic intermingling. By Ruth Franklin
Dec 10, 2019 · Banquet speech. Olga Tokarczuk’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, my fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Allow me to offer my most heartfelt thanks to the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation for this incredible honor.
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. Born in 1962 in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls “constellation novels,” blending memoir, fiction, and lyric sketches into a single ...
Olga Tokarczuk has 74 books on Goodreads with 573485 ratings. Olga Tokarczuk’s most popular book is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life’.
