Olga Tokarczuk Wins Nobel Prize for Literature .

On 10th October 2019, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. This is the second year in a row that Tokarczuk has won a major literary award – in 2018, she and her translator Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for ‘Flights’.

Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and most translated Polish writers, with House of Day, House of Night and Primeval and Other Tales being her greatest commercial and critical successes. She lives and works in Wałbrzych in Lower Silesia. An outstanding writer, essayist and a devotee of Jung, she is considered an authority on philosophy and arcane knowledge. Undeniably a great discovery for Polish literature in the 1990s, she continues to be a phenomenon hugely admired by critics and readers alike. Her new award as a Nobel Prize laureate was announced at the same time as the 2019 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Austrian writer Peter Handke.

Tokarczuk has won numerous awards for her work, including the prestigious Polish awards the Polityka Passport and the Nike Literary Award, as well as the Vilenica International Literary Prize. Her book Drive Your Plough Through the Bones of the Dead was the basis of Agnieszka Holland’s award-winning movie Spoor. Most notably, she is the first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International Prize – for her novel Flights translated by Jennifer Croft.

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