Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Polish authors of her generation.
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Tokarczuk in Kraków, Poland (2005)
Tokarczuk (left) and director Agnieszka Holland in 2017
Tokarczuk during presentation of movie Spoor at the Berlinale 2017
Tokarczuk and Karol Maliszewski at the Literary Heights Festival (2018)
Tokarczuk (left) with Jennifer Croft, translator of Flights and The Books of Jacob, and Lisa Appignanesi, Chair of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize judges
Tokarczuk at 2024 Nobel WeekIn their own words 10
In a way, we need charismatic leaders.
"Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk releases 'The Books of Jacob'" in NPR (29 January 2022)
Every change in the world starts with some kind of idea, reflection or thought.
"Every Change in the World Starts with a Reflection" in Versopolis (5 May 2021)
Art is a huge space for cognitive and conscious experiments, and it uses different sorts of efforts to describe reality.
"Every Change in the World Starts with a Reflection" in Versopolis (5 May 2021)
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About this person
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Polish authors of her generation. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.
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