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Olga Tokarczuk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2018

Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, for her novel Flights. She has received many other honours, including her country Poland’s highest literary award, the Nike, for both Flights and The Books of Jacob. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was also highly praised. She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, a children’s book and two collections of essays. Her work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Widely regarded as one of the most important writers of her generation, she lives in Poland.

Nobel Prize in Literature
Guardian 
Frieze: Jennifer Croft on translating Olga Tokarczuk 
New York Times 
Paris Review 

Watch Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Lecture 

PROFILES and INTERVIEWS

LA Review of Books: Fulfilling the Mission: A Conversation with Olga Tokarczuk’s Translators   
Lit Hub
 
The National
     
New Yorker: Olga Tokarczuk on the Power of Words     

OPINION PIECES

New York Times: A Mayor is Murdered, a Country Hums With Violence     
New Yorker: ‘Yente’ (fiction)      

Titles byOlga Tokarczuk
  • The Empusium
    The Empusium
    Olga Tokarczuk
  • The Books of Jacob
    The Books of Jacob
    Olga Tokarczuk
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
    Olga Tokarczuk
  • Flights
    Flights
    Olga Tokarczuk