Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk[1] ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer and activist.[2][3][4]
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| Born | 29 January 1962
(aged 64) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation | Writer, essayist, poet, screenwriter, psychologist |
Notable work | Flights The Books of Jacob Primeval and Other Times |
| Awards | Nike Award (2008, 2015) Vilenica Prize (2013) Brückepreis (2015) The Man Booker International Prize (2018) Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (2018) Nobel Prize in Literature (2018) Prix Laure Bataillon (2019) |
In 2018, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights, becoming the first Polish writer to do so.[5] She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2018 (awarded in 2019).[6][7]
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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
Olga Tokarczuk, Karol Maliszewski
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 Week
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References
- ↑ STOWARZYSZENIE KULTURALNE "GÓRY BABEL" | Rejestr.io. rejestr.io. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
- ↑ HNonline.sk - Nobelove ceny za literatúru sú známe: Laureátom za rok 2018 je Olga Tokarczuková, za rok 2019 Peter Handke (10 October 2019).
- ↑ Rzeczpospolita. List of Polish bestsellers 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza. Tokarczuk wins NIKE prize for Bieguni (Flights). Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ↑ "Olga Tokarczuk's 'extraordinary' Flights wins Man Booker International prize". The Guardian. 22 May 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/22/olga-tokarczuk-flights-wins-man-booker-international-prize-polish. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ↑ "Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prizes in literature". The Guardian. 10 October 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/nobel-prizes-in-literature-olga-tokarczuk-peter-handke-2019-2018. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ↑ "Nobelove ceny za literatúru získali Olga Tokarczuková a Peter Handke" (in sk). Pravda. 10 October 2019. https://kultura.pravda.sk/kniha/clanok/528786-nobelove-ceny-za-literaturu-budu-vyhlasene-dve/. Retrieved 10 October 2019.