Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
First edition cover (Polish)
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
Audio read byBeata Poźniak
Original titleProwadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
TranslatorAntonia Lloyd-Jones
LanguagePolish
Set inSilesia
PublisherWydawnictwo Literackie
Publication date
25 November 2009
Publication placePoland
Published in English
12 September 2018
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback) and e-book
Pages318
ISBN978-83-08-04398-1
891.8/537
LC ClassPG7179.O37 P76 2009

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Polish: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk. Originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie, it was later translated to English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published in 2018 by the British independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. The book received a wider release in 2019 when it was published in the United States by Riverhead Books on 13 August 2019. A portion of the English translation was originally published in literary magazine Granta in 2017.[1]

The novel was shortlisted for the 2019 International Booker Prize.[2][3][4][5] Antonia Lloyd-Jones' translation was also longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature.[6][7] Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature two months after the novel's US release.[8] In 2020, it was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.[9]

  1. ^ Tokarczuk, Olga (16 March 2017). "Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead". Granta. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. ^ Marshall, Alex (9 April 2019). "Women Dominate Shortlist for Booker International Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Polish novelist nominated for back-to-back Booker Prize". Associated Press. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. ^ Cain, Sian (9 April 2019). "Man Booker International shortlist dominated by female authors and translators". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  5. ^ van Koeverden, Jane (9 April 2019). "Olga Tokarczuk shortlisted for 2019 Man Booker International Prize". CBC Books. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  6. ^ "The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature". The New Yorker. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  7. ^ Italie, Hillel (17 September 2019). "National Book Awards list for translation has global reach". Associated Press. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Nobel Prize Lessons – All Nobel Prizes 2019". NobelPrize.org. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Dublin City Council Announces the 2020 International DUBLIN Literary Award Shortlist". Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.

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