Olga Tokarczuk - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jan 29, 1962 Sulechów, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland 62 years old

Polish writer, 2018 Nobel laureate

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About Olga Tokarczuk

  • Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([t?'kart??uk]; born 29 January 1962) 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.
  • In 2018, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights (translated by Jennifer Croft).
  • In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.Tokarczuk is particularly noted for the mythical tone of her writing.
  • She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw and published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works.
  • Flights won the Nike Award, Poland's top literary prize, in 2008.
  • She attended the 2010 Edinburgh Book Festival to discuss her book Primeval and Other Times and other work.
  • With her novel Ksiegi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob), Tokarczuk won the Nike Award again in 2015.
  • In the same year, Tokarczuk received the German-Polish International Bridge Prize, a recognition extended to persons especially accomplished in the promotion of peace, democratic development and mutual understanding among the people and nations of Europe.Tokarczuk is a leftist, a vegetarian, and feminist.
  • She has been criticized by some groups in Poland as unpatriotic, anti-Christian and a promoter of eco-terrorism.
  • She has denied the allegations, has described herself as a "true patriot" and has said that groups criticizing her are xenophobic and damage Poland's international reputation.

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