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Olga Tokarczuk

Born

in Sulechów, Poland

January 29, 1962

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http://www.tokarczuk.wydawnictwoliterackie.pl

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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".

For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.

Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The ...more

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	Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator), Beata Poźniak (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.94 avg rating — 149,301 ratings — published 2009 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 37,297 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 22,002 ratings — published 2022 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 17,493 ratings — published 1996 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 10,284 ratings — published 2014 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 7,043 ratings — published 1998 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opowiadania bizarne 3.82 avg rating — 6,177 ratings — published 2008 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk, Joanna Concejo (Illustrator), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 4,020 ratings — published 2017 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Szafa 3.92 avg rating — 3,901 ratings — published 1997 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Podróż ludzi Księgi 3.72 avg rating — 3,180 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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