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Edition 1 (2018) Nominee
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Edition 2 (2019) Longlisted
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Edition 5 (2022) Longlisted
Olga Tokarczuk
オルガ・トカルチュク
Oruga Tokaruchuku
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1962-01-29 (Sulechów, Poland)
- Nationality
- Polish
- Languages
- Polish
- Residence History
- Sulechów → Klenica → Kietrz → Wrocław → Wałbrzych → Krajanów and Wrocław
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, psychologist, screenwriter, activist
- Active Years
- 1989-2024
- Affiliations
- Krytyka Polityczna
- Memberships
- Vice President of PEN International
- Influenced By
- Carl Jung
- Influenced
- Next generation of Polish writers
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Warsaw | Faculty of Psychology | Clinical Psychology | MA | 1980-1985 | Poland |
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Nobel Prize in Literature | — | — | Swedish Academy | winner |
| 2018 | Man Booker International Prize | Flights | — | Man Booker Prize Foundation | winner |
| 2008 | Nike Award | Flights | — | Nike Literary Award | winner |
| 2015 | Nike Award | The Books of Jacob | — | Nike Literary Award | winner |
| 2013 | Vilenica Prize | — | — | — | winner |
| 2015 | Brückepreis | — | — | — | winner |
| 2018 | Jan Michalski Prize | The Books of Jacob | — | — | winner |
Awards & Nominations
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Edition 100 (2022) WinnerWork: Seams
A story that traces connection and rupture through labor, craft, or kinship.
A story that traces connection and rupture through labor, craft, or kinship.
short storyrelationshipsmemory
Works
Major Works
Primeval and Other Times
1996 NovelA mythical chronicle of lives in the fictional village of Primeval over eight decades starting from World War I.
Flights
2007 NovelA patchwork of essays and fiction exploring modern nomadism, travel psychology, time, and space.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
2009 NovelAn eccentric woman in Poland's Kłodzko Valley investigates murders of hunters, believing animals seek revenge.
- [Film] Spoor / Agnieszka Holland (2017)
The Books of Jacob
2014 NovelEpic novel about 18th-century Polish-Jewish mystic Jacob Frank, spanning borders, languages, and religions.
Bibliography
- Cities in Mirrors
- The Journey of the Book-People
- E.E.
- Primeval and Other Times
- House of Day, House of Night
- Flights
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- The Books of Jacob
- The Empusium
Adaptations
- Spoor (film, 2017, dir. Agnieszka Holland)
Translations of Works
- Translated into nearly 40 languages
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- mythical tonemagic realismconstellation novelencyclopedic passion
- Recurring Motifs
- crossing boundariesnomadismmulticulturalismJungian psychology
Legacy
One of the most acclaimed Polish authors of her generation, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Works translated into nearly 40 languages.
In Popular Culture
- Minor planet 555468 Tokarczuk named after her
Quotes
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The Tender Narrator (Nobel Lecture excerpt on literature's power).
Source: Nobel Lecture 'The Tender Narrator' (2019)
Trivia
- Vegetarian
- Grandmother of Ukrainian origin
- Father was member of Polish United Workers' Party
- Known for dreadlocks
- Founded Olga Tokarczuk Foundation