Since 1998, Tokarczuk has lived in a small village Krajanow near Nowa Ruda, from where she also manages her private publishing company Ruta.Ī leftist, a vegetarian, and feminist, Tokarczuk has been criticized by some Polish groups as unpatriotic, anti-Christian, and a promoter of eco-terrorism. Tokarczuk considers herself a disciple of Carl Jung and cites his psychology as an inspiration for her literary work. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw and, during her studies, volunteered in an asylum for adolescents with behavioural problems.Īfter graduation in 1985, Tokarczuk moved first to Wrocław and later to Wałbrzych, where she practiced as a therapist. Tokarczuk was born in Sulechow, in western Poland (0ne of her grandmothers was from Ukraine). Noted for the mythical tone of her writing, Tokarczuk won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature for her 'narrative imagination that, with encyclopedic passion, represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.' In 2018 she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel, Flights. All told, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual, who has been described in Poland as one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful authors of her generation.

Awards-Nobel Prize for Literature Man Booker International Prize.

Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time.

A young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear.

A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart.

Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister.Winner, 2018 Man Booker International Prizeįrom the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Olga Tokarczuk (Trans., Jennifer Croft), 2018

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