Olga Tokarczuk

Born 29 January 1962

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (ur. 29 stycznia 1962 w Sulechowie) – polska pisarka, eseistka, poetka i autorka scenariuszy, psycholożka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za rok 2018, laureatka The Man Booker International Prize 2018 za powieść Bieguni oraz dwukrotna laureatka Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” za powieści: Bieguni (2008) i Księgi Jakubowe (2015).

Quotes

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it. It has no special emblems or symbols, nor does it lead to crime, or prompt envy.”
Nobel Prize lecture 7 December 2019 excerpts
“That is why I believe I must tell stories as if the world were a living, single entity, constantly forming before our eyes, and as if we were a small and at the same time powerful part of it.”
Nobel Prize lecture 7 December 2019 excerpts
“Tale, fairy tale, metaphor, parable are tools that literature has been using for centuries.”
"Every Change in the World Starts with a Reflection" in Versopolis 5 May 2021
“As I writer, I have courage to be—to ask questions and not to find an answer because then I should change my job and try to be a scientist. And this is the better freedom, to be a writer. Just ask and show strange things.”
"Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman" in LitHub
“To make it easier for us to cope with this we are given numbers, name tags, cards, crude plastic identities that try to reduce us to using one small part of the whole that we have already ceased to perceive.”
Nobel Prize lecture 7 December 2019 excerpts

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Books by Olga Tokarczuk in order

Books by Olga Tokarczuk in the order they were published, from E.E (1995) to Mr. Distinctive (2024).

Olga Tokarczuk

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Books by Olga Tokarczuk in order

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