The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-10
"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"
Olga Tokarczuk
Born: 1962-01-29 in Sulechów, Poland
Gender: female
Field: Polish writer and activist (born 1962)
Biography
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. In 2019, 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. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.