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| Born | Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk 29 January 1962 Sulechów, Poland |
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| Language | Polish |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Education | University of Warsaw (MA) |
| Period | Contemporary |
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| Literary movement | Magic realism |
| Years active | 1989–present |
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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. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.
Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times. In 2015, she received the German-Polish Bridge Prize for her contribution to mutual understanding between European nations.
Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers.[4] The Books of Jacob, regarded as her magnum opus, was released in the UK in November 2021 after seven years of translation work,[5] followed by release in the US in February 2022.[6] In March that year, the novel was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.[7]
- ^ "Stowarzyszenie Kulturalne Góry Babel" [Mount Babel Cultural Association]. Krajowy Rejestr Sądowy. Retrieved 10 October 2019 – via Rejestr.io.
- ^ "Nobelove ceny za literatúru sú známe: Laureátom za rok 2018 je Olga Tokarczuková, za rok 2019 Peter Handke" [Nobel prizes in literature are known: Olga Tokarczuk for 2018, Peter Handke for 2019]. style.hnonline.sk (in Slovak). 10 October 2019.
- ^ Flood, Alison (22 May 2018). "Olga Tokarczuk's 'extraordinary' Flights wins Man Booker International prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Jasińska, Joanna (4 October 2020). "Translators from across the globe discuss works of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk". TheFirstNews.com. PAP. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ Flood, Alison (26 February 2021). "Olga Tokarczuk's magnum opus finally gets English release – after seven years of translation". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (24 January 2022). "'The Books of Jacob,' a Nobel Prize Winner's Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ "The Books of Jacob | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
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