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Olga Tokarczuk

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Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the most translated living Polish author and the author of nine novels and three short story collections. She has twice won the most prestigious Polish literary prize, the Nike Award, for Flights (Bieguni) in 2008 and for The Books of Jacob (Księgi Jakubowe) in 2015. Her most famous novels include Primeval and Other Times (Prawiek i Inne Czasy), House of Day, House of Night (Dom Dzienny, Dom Nocny), Flights (Bieguni), which also won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards in Translated Literature 2018, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Prowadź Swój Pług Przez Kości Umarłych), translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Award and the Dublin Literary Award and the Warwick Prize, and longlisted for the National Book Awards in Translated Literature. Her epic novel, The Books of Jacob, was published in English by Fitzcarraldo, Riverhead and Text Publishing in 2021 in a translation by Jennifer Croft, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker International Award. Her latest novel, Empuzjon, published in 2022, is now being translated into English. Her work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Tokarczuk lives in Wroclaw where she has established a foundation that runs educational programmes and provides support for writers and translators.

Past events

  1. 2023

    theatre |Theater Amsterdam