Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk[1] ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29

January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist,[2] and public Olga Tokarczuk
intellectual.[3] 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. Her works
include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow
Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.

Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her

writing. A clinical psychologist from the University of
Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems,
several novels, as well as other books with shorter Tokarczuk in 2019
prose works. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she Born Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk
won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, 29 January 1962
among other accolades; she won the Nike audience Sulechów, Poland
award five times. In 2015, she received the German- Occupation Writer · psychologist ·
Polish Bridge Prize for her contribution to mutual screenwriter
understanding between European nations. Language Polish
Education University of Warsaw (MA)
Her works have been translated into almost 40
Period Contemporary
languages, making her one of the most translated
contemporary Polish writers.[4] The Books of Jacob, Genres Novel · travelogue · essay ·
regarded as her magnum opus, was released in the UK poetry
in November 2021 after seven years of translation Literary Magic realism
movement
work,[5] followed by release in the US in February
Years active 1989–present
2022.[6] In March that year, the novel was shortlisted
for the 2022 International Booker Prize.[7] Notable works Primeval and Other Times
(1996)
Flights (2007)
Biography Drive Your Plow Over the
Bones of the Dead (2009)
The Books of Jacob (2014)
Early life, and education Notable Nike Award (2008, 2015)
awards
Olga Tokarczuk was born in Sulechów near Zielona Vilenica Prize (2013)
Góra, in western Poland. She is the daughter of two Brückepreis (2015)
teachers, Wanda Słabowska and Józef Tokarczuk, and
has a sister.[8] Her parents were resettled from former The Man Booker
Polish eastern regions after the Second World War; one International Prize (2018)
of her grandmothers was of Ukrainian origin. [9][10][11] Jan Michalski Prize (2018)
The family lived in the countryside in Klenica, some Nobel Prize in Literature
11 mi away from Zielona Góra, where her parents (2018)
taught at the People's University and her father also ran Prix Laure Bataillon (2019)
a school library in which she found her love of
Signature
literature.[12] Her father was a member of the Polish
United Workers' Party.[13] As a child, Tokarczuk liked
Henryk Sienkiewicz's popular novel In Desert and
Wilderness and fairy tales, among others.[14] Her
family later moved south-east to Kietrz in Opolian Silesia, where she graduated from the C.K. Norwid
high school.[15] In 1979, she debuted with two short stories in prose published in youth scouting
magazine Na Przełaj (No. 39, under the pseudonym Natasza Borodin).

Tokarczuk went on to study clinical psychology at the University of Warsaw in 1980, and during her
studies, she volunteered in an asylum for adolescents with behavioural problems.[16] After graduation in
1985, she moved to Wrocław and later to Wałbrzych, where she worked as a psychotherapist in 1986–89
and teachers' trainer in 1989–96. In the meantime, she published poems and reviews in the press and
published a book of poetry in 1989. Her works were awarded at Walbrzych Literary Paths (1988,
1990).[8] Tokarczuk quit to concentrate on literature, she also said she felt "more neurotic than [her]
clients".[12] She worked doing odd jobs in London for a while, improving her English, and went for
literary scholarships in the United States (1996) and in Berlin (2001/02).[8]

Inspiration, and family

Tokarczuk considers herself a disciple of Carl Jung and cites his
psychology as an inspiration for her literary work.[17][18][19]

Since 1998, she has lived between Krajanów and Wrocław, in Lower
Silesia. Her home in Krajanów near Nowa Ruda is located in the
Sudetes mountains at the multi-cultural Polish-Czech borderland. The
locale has influenced her literary work;[15] the novel House of Day,
House of Night (1998) touches on life in the adopted home, and the
action of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) takes Tokarczuk in Kraków, Poland
place in the picturesque Kłodzko Valley. In 1998, together with her (2005)
first husband, Tokarczuk founded the Ruta publishing house, which
operated until 2004.[8] She was an organizer of the International
Short Story Festival, which was inaugurated in Wrocław in 2004. As a guest lecturer, she conducted prose
workshops at universities in Kraków and Opole. Tokarczuk joined the editorial team of Krytyka
Polityczna (Eng. ed. Political Critique), a magazine as well as a large pan-regional network of institutions
and activists, and currently serves on the Board of trustees of its academic and research unit – Institute for
Advance Study in Warsaw. She has also travelled around the world.[8][20]

In 2009, Tokarczuk received a literary scholarship from the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and during her stay at the NIAS campus in Wassenaar, she wrote her novel Drive Your Plow Over the
Bones of the Dead, which was published the same year.[8][14]
Roman Fingas, a fellow psychologist, was Tokarczuk's first husband. They married when she was 23 and
later divorced; their son Zbigniew was born in 1986. Grzegorz Zygadło is her second husband. She is a
vegetarian.[14]

Literary career
Olga Tokarczuk's first book was published in 1989, a collection of poems entitled Miasta w lustrach
(Cities in Mirrors).[16] Her debut novel, Podróż ludzi księgi (The Journey of the Book-People), was
published in 1993. A parable on two lovers' quest for the "secret of the Book" – a metaphor for the
meaning of life – is set in the 17th century, and portrays an expedition to a monastery in the Pyrenees on
the trail of a book that reveals the mystery of life, ending with an ironic twist. It was well received by
critics and won the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut.[21]

The follow-up novel, E.E. (1995), plays with the conventions of the modernist psychological novel, and
took its title from the initials of its protagonist, the adolescent Erna Eltzner, who develops psychic
abilities. Growing up in a wealthy German-Polish family in the 1920s in Wrocław, which was at that time
a German city named Breslau, she allegedly becomes a medium, a fact her mother begins to take
advantage of by organizing spiritual sessions. Tokarczuk introduces the characters of scientists, the
psychiatrist-patient relationship, and despite elements of spiritualism, occultism as well as gnosticism,
she represents psychological realism and cognitive scepticism. Katarzyna Kantner, a literary scholar who
defended her PhD thesis on the works of Olga Tokarczuk, points to C. G. Jung's doctoral dissertation "On
the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" as an inspiration.[17][22]

Her third novel, Primeval and Other Times (Prawiek i inne czasy, Eng. 2010), was published in 1996 and
became highly successful. It is set in the fictitious village of Primeval at the very heart of Poland, which
is populated by some eccentric, archetypical characters. The village, a microcosm of Europe, is guarded
by four archangels, from whose perspective the book chronicles the lives of its inhabitants over a period
of eight decades, beginning in the year that World War I broke out.[23] The book presents the creation of a
myth emerging before the reader's eyes. "This is Primeval: an enclosed snow globe, a world in itself,
which it may or may not be possible to ever leave. [...] And yet, as much as the town of Primeval is
devastated, over and over, by history, there is also a counter dream, full of creaturely magic and
wonder."[24] Translated into many languages, with English version by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Primeval and
Other Times established Tokarczuk's international reputation as one of the most important representatives
of Polish literature in her generation.[25][26]

After Primeval and Other Times, her work began drifting away from the novel genre towards shorter
prose texts and essays. Tokarczuk's next book Szafa (The Wardrobe, 1997) was a collection of three
novella-type stories.

House of Day, House of Night (Dom dzienny, dom nocny, 1998, Eng. 2003), is what Tokarczuk terms the
'constellation novel', a patchwork of loosely connected disparate stories, sketches, and essays about life
past and present in the author's adopted home in Krajanów, which allow various interpretations and
enable communication at a deeper, psychological level. Her goal is to make those images, fragments of
narrative and motif, merge only on entering the reader's consciousness. While some, at least those
unfamiliar with Central European history, have labelled it Tokarczuk's most "difficult" piece, it was her
first book to be published in English and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in
2004.[27][28]
 House of Day, House of Night was followed by a collection of
short stories Gra na wielu bębenkach (Playing on Many Drums,
2001) as well as a book-length non-fiction essay Lalka i perła
(The Doll and the Pearl, 2000), on the subject of Bolesław Prus'
classic novel The Doll.[29] She also published a volume with three
modern Christmas tales, together with her fellow writers Jerzy
Pilch and Andrzej Stasiuk (Opowieści wigilijne, 2000).[30]
Ostatnie historie (The Last Stories) of 2004 is an exploration of
Tokarczuk (left) and director
Agnieszka Holland in 2017
death from the perspectives of three generations, while the novel
Anna in the Tombs of the World (2006) was a contribution to the
Canongate Myth Series by Polish publisher Znak.

Tokarczuk's novel Flights (Bieguni, 2007, Eng. 2018) returns to the patchwork approach of essay and
fiction, the major theme of which is modern-day nomads. The book explores how a person moves
through time and space as well as the psychology of travelling.[31][32][33] For Flights, she has been
awarded both the jury and the readers prize of Polish Nike Awards in 2008, and then the 2018 Man
Booker International Prize (translation by Jennifer Croft).[3] The novel landed on the short list for the
U.S. prestigious National Book Award in the "Translated Literature" category; a panel of judges
stated:[34]

Through [...] 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. Where are you from? Where are you coming
in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly
original, Flights is a master storyteller’s answer.

In 2009, Tokarczuk published an existential, noir thriller novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the
Dead (Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych, Eng. 2019), which is not a conventional crime story,
transforming into an acid social satire. The main character and narrator is Janina Duszejko, a woman in
her 60s living in a rural area in the Polish Kłodzko Valley, eccentric in perception of other humans
through astrology and fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is
taken. She decides to investigate the murders of members of the local hunting club and initially explains
these deaths as having been caused by wild animals taking revenge on hunters.[35][36][37] The novel
became a bestseller in Poland.[38] It was the basis of the crime film Spoor (2017) directed by Agnieszka
Holland, which won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) at the 67th Berlin International Film
Festival.[39] The English translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones earned Tokarczuk a second nomination for
the Man Booker International Prize. In 2022, a stage version of the novel was produced by the British
theatre company Complicité.

An epic novel The Books of Jacob (2014, English translation 2021 by Jennifer Croft) is a journey over
seven borders, five languages, and three major religions. Beginning in 1752 at the historical eastern
Galicia region, now western Ukraine, it revolves around a controversial 18th-century Polish-Jewish
religious leader and mystic Jacob Frank among other historical figures, and winds up near mid-20th-
century Korolówka, Poland, where a family of local Jews had hidden from the Holocaust. Frank, who
founded the Frankist sect fighting for the rights and emancipation of the Jews, encouraged his followers
to transgress moral boundaries, even promoting orgiastic rites. The Frankists were persecuted in the
Jewish community, especially after Frank led his followers to be baptised
by the Roman Catholic church. The church later imprisoned him for
heresy for more than a decade, only for Frank to declare that he was the
messiah. Through third-person accounts, the action takes place in present-
day Turkey, Greece, Austria and Germany, capturing regional spirit,
climate as well as interesting customs. Jan Michalski Prize jury
praised:[40]

A work of immense erudition with a powerful epic sweep. [...]

The thematic richness is impressive. The story of the Frankists,
rendered through a series of mythic narratives, is transformed
into a universal epic tale of the struggle against rigid thinking,
either religious or philosophical, that ostracize and enslave
Tokarczuk during
people. An extensive and prolific work that warns against our
presentation of movie
inability to embrace an environment complex in its diversity, Spoor at the Berlinale 2017
fueling a fanatical sectarianism which ends in disaster. The
Books of Jacob, by telling the past with a dazzling virtuosity,
helps us to better understand the world in which we live.

Regarding the historical and ideological divides of Polish literature, the book has been characterized as
anti-Sienkiewicz. It was soon acclaimed by critics and readers alike, but its reception has been hostile in
some Polish nationalist circles and Olga Tokarczuk became a target of some internet hate and harassment
campaign.[41][42]

In 2022, she published The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story. It was translated into English in
2024 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. It was inspired by The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann.[43][44][45][46]

Literary Heights Festival

Since its foundation in 2015, Olga Tokarczuk has become co-host of the
annual Literary Heights Festival, which has included events in her village.
The festival has a rich programme of cultural events such as educational
sessions and workshops, debates, concerts, film screenings as well as
various exhibitions.

Olga Tokarczuk Foundation

In November 2019, Tokarczuk established an eponymous foundation with
a planned wide range of literature-related activities to create a progressive
Tokarczuk and Karol
intellectual and artistic centre. It was declared that Polish poet Tymoteusz
Maliszewski at the Literary
Karpowicz's villa in Wrocław would become its future seat.[47] The writer Heights Festival (2018)
allocated 10 per cent of her Nobel financial prize to the body and, aside
from her, Agnieszka Holland and Ireneusz Grin have joined the
Foundation Council. The foundation started its operations in October 2020 implementing educational
programs, organizing writing contests and public debates, and funding scholarships for young aspiring
writers as well as international, residencies.[48]

Views
Tokarczuk is a leftist and a feminist.[49][50][51] She has been criticized by some nationalist groups in
Poland as unpatriotic, anti-Christian and a promoter of eco-terrorism.[52][50] She has denied the
allegations, has described herself as a "true patriot" and said that groups criticizing her are xenophobic
and damage Poland's international reputation.[53][54][55] A vocal critic of antisemitism in Poland,
Tokarczuk has said that "There's no Polish culture without Jewish culture". She has often denounced
Poland for having "committed horrendous acts as colonizers, as a national majority that suppressed the
minority [Jews], as slaveowners, and as the murderers of Jews". Her many public denunciations of Polish
antisemitism have earned her animosity from some members of the Polish nationalist right.[56]

In 2015, after the publication of The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk was criticized by the Nowa Ruda Patriots
association, who demanded that the town's council revoke the writer's honorary citizenship of Nowa Ruda
because, as the association claimed, she had tarnished the good name of the Polish nation. Those people's
postulate was supported by Senator Waldemar Bonkowski of the Law and Justice Party, according to
whom Tokarczuk's literary output and public statements are in "absolute contradiction to the assumptions
of the Polish historical politics". Tokarczuk asserted that she is the true patriot, not the people and groups
who criticize her, and whose alleged xenophobic and racist attitudes and actions are harmful to Poland
and its image abroad.[53][54][55]

In 2020, she was one of the signatories alongside other prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood, John
Banville and J. M. Coetzee of an open letter addressed to the President of the European Commission,
Ursula von der Leyen, urging the European Union "to take immediate steps to defend core European
values – equality, non-discrimination, respect for minorities – which are being blatantly violated in
Poland" and appealing to the Polish government to stop targeting sexual minorities and to withdraw
support from organizations promoting homophobia.[57][58]

Awards and recognition

Olga Tokarczuk is the laureate of numerous literary awards both in and outside Poland. Her works have
become the subject of several dozen academic papers and theses.[59]

Her first recognition, in 2004, was for the English translation (by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) of her 1998 novel
House of Day, House of Night, which was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.[60]

Five of Tokarczuk's books were finalists for the Nike Award,[61] the most important Polish literary
accolade, and two of them won the prize: Flights in 2008, and The Books of Jacob in 2015.[62][49]

In 2010, Tokarczuk received the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.[63] In 2013, she was
awarded the Slovene Vilenica Prize.[18]
 She is the recipient of the 2015 Brückepreis, the 20th
edition of the award granted by the "Europa-City
Zgorzelec/Görlitz". The prize is a joint undertaking of the
German and Polish border twin cities aimed at advancing
mutual, regional and European peace, understanding and
cooperation among people of different nationalities, cultures
and viewpoints. Particularly appreciated by the jury was
Tokarczuk's creation of literary bridges connecting people,
generations and cultures, especially residents of the border
Tokarczuk (left) with Jennifer Croft, territories of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, who
translator of Flights and The Books of
have had often different existential and historical
Jacob, and Lisa Appignanesi, Chair of the
2018 Man Booker International Prize
experiences. Also stressed was Tokarczuk's "rediscovery"
judges and elucidation of the complex multinational and
multicultural past of the Lower Silesia region, an area of
great political conflicts. Attending the award ceremony in
Görlitz, Tokarczuk was impressed by the positive and pragmatic attitude demonstrated by the mayor of
the German town regarding the current refugee and migrant crisis, which she contrasted with the
ideological uproar surrounding the issue in Poland.[64][53][65][66]

For The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2016 Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literary
Prize in Stockholm.[67] The French translation of the novel was recognized as the 2018 "Best European
novel" by France's cultural magazine Transfuge. It also won the 2018 Swiss Jan Michalski Prize, and the
2019 French Prix Laure Bataillon for the best foreign-language book translated in the previous
year.[40][68]

In 2018, Flights (English translation by Jennifer Croft) was awarded the Man Booker International
Prize.[3][69]

A year later, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) was
shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.[70]

Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019 for "a narrative imagination
that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" and delivered the
Nobel Lecture, The Tender Narrator, on 7 December of that year.[71] The 2018 award had been
postponed due to controversy within the Nobel committee.[72][73][12][74]

In 2020, she received the title of an Honorary Citizen of Warsaw as a recognition of her literary
achievements.[75]

In 2021, Tokarczuk received the titles of a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Warsaw,
University of Wrocław, and then from the Kraków's Jagiellonian University.[76][77][78] She also became
Honorary Citizen of Kraków.[79]

She was elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer in November 2021.[80]

In March 2022, The Books of Jacob (translated by Jennifer Croft) was longlisted for the 2022
International Booker Prize,[81] subsequently being shortlisted in April.[82] In June 2022, she was awarded
an Honorary Degree from the Sofia University[83][84] and in May 2023 from the Tel Aviv University.[85]
In September 2024, the Europese Literatuurprijs was awarded to her latest book The Empusium.[86]

Bibliography

Novels
Podróż ludzi Księgi [Journey of the People of the Book] (in Polish). Warszawa: Przedświt.
1993.
E.E. (in Polish). Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1995.
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House of day, house of night. Translated by Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. London: Granta.
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House of day, house of night. Translated by Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. Evanston, Ill.:
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Ostatnie historie [Final stories] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2017 [2004].
Anna In w grobowcach świata [Anna In in the tombs of the world] (in Polish). Kraków: Znak.
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Bieguni [Flights] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2007.
Flights. Translated by Croft, Jennifer. New York: Riverhead Books. 2018.
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Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2009.
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Księgi Jakubowe [The Books of Jacob] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2014.
The Books of Jacob. Translated by Croft, Jennifer. New York: Riverhead Books. 2022.
Empuzjon (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2022.
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Short fiction

Collections

Gra na wielu bębenkach : 19 opowiadań [Playing on many drums : 19 stories] (in Polish).
Wałbrzych: Ruta. 2001.
Opowiadania bizarne [Bizarre stories] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2018.

Stories[a]
 Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes

Tokarczuk, Olga (20 September

2021). "Yente" (https://www.newy
orker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/
Yente 2021
yente). The New Yorker. 97 (29).
Translated by Croft, Jennifer: 60–
65.

Poetry

Collections

Miasto w lustrach [The city in mirrors] (in Polish). Warszawa: Zarząd Główny Związku
Socjalistycznej Młodzieży Polskiej. 1989.

Nonfiction
Szafa [The wardrobe] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2005 [1997].
Tokarczuk, Olga; Jerzy Pilch & Andrzej Stasiuk (2000). Opowieści wigilijne [Christmas tales]
(in Polish). Wałbrzych: Czarna Ruta.
Tokarczuk, Olga & Czesław Miłosz (2019) [2001]. Lalka i perła [The doll and the pearl] (in
Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie.
Moment niedźwiedzia [The moment of the bear] (in Polish). Warszawa: Krytyki Politycznej.
2012.
Czuły narrator [The tender narrator] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2020.

Children's books
Zgubiona Dusza [The Lost Soul] (in Polish). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Format. 2017.
The Lost Soul. Translated by Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. Illustrated by Joanna Concejo. New
York: Seven Stories Press. 2021. ISBN 978-1-64421-035-2.

Notes
a. Short stories unless otherwise noted.

See also
List of Polish Nobel laureates
Polish literature
List of Poles: Literature

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Further reading
Ruth Franklin, "Past Master: An experimental novelist and the battle for Poland's national
narrative", The New Yorker, 5 & 12 August 2019, pp. 20–26. "Her role, as she sees it, is to
force her readers to examine aspects of history – their own or their nation's – that they
would rather avoid. She has become, she says, a 'psychotherapist of the past.'" (p. 26.)
Sławek, Ewa (17 May 2022). "Prawiek i inne czasy Olgi Tokarczuk w perspektywie
lingwistyki kulturowej i ekologicznej" (https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/flit/article/vie
w/13203) [Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and other Times – Cultural and Ecological Linguistics
Perspectives]. Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica (in Polish) (4): 1–14.
doi:10.31261/FLPI.2022.04.11 (https://doi.org/10.31261%2FFLPI.2022.04.11).
hdl:20.500.12128/23613 (https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128%2F23613). ISSN 2658-185X
 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2658-185X). S2CID 250294895 (https://api.semanticschola
r.org/CorpusID:250294895).

External links
Olga Tokarczuk (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/979) on Nobelprize.org including the
Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2019 The Tender Narrator
Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation (https://lithub.com/nobel-prize-winner-ol
ga-tokarczuk-in-conversation-with-john-freeman/) with John Freeman on Literary Hub, 10
October 2019
Olga Tokarczuk (https://www.theguardian.com/books/olga-tokarczuk) at The Guardian
Biography at Culture.pl (https://culture.pl/en/artist/olga-tokarczuk) (Polish Adam Mickiewicz
Institute, May 2018)
Short biography, interviews, and reviews (https://web.archive.org/web/20120920101958/htt
p://www.polishwriting.net/?s=author&c=tokarczuk) at PolishWriting.net, c. 2008
Works by Olga Tokarczuk (https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL258989A) at Open Library
List of Works at Swiss Nobel Laureates' catalogue (http://noblib.internet-box.ch/NLEW.php?
authorid=145)
Olga Tokarczuk at Fitzcarraldo Editions (https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/authors/olga-tokarcz
uk)
Olga Tokarczuk at Twisted Spoon Press (https://www.twistedspoon.com/tokarczuk.html)

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