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Olga Tokarczuk awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. Her first novel, “The Journey of the People of the Book,” was released in 1993. She has also won the Booker International Prize for her ..
Topics: Awards • Flights • G. • International Booker Prize • Literary awards • Literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize in Literature • Olga Tokarczuk • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker International Prize 2018
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (56) awarded Man Booker International Prize 2018. It makes her first writer from Poland to win this prestigious English-language literary award. She won prize with English translation of her novel Flights, which charts multiple journeys in time, space and human anatomy. It was first published in Polish language in 2007 and ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2018
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Awards • Man Booker International Prize • Olga Tokarczuk • Persons in News • Poland
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk wins prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction for her novel ‘Flights’. The novel, translated by Jennifer Croft, interweaves narratives of travel with explorations of the human body. It combines tales of modern-day travel with the story of a 17th century anatomist who dissected his own amputated leg ..
Topics: Booker Prize • Flights • International Booker Prize • J • Jennifer Croft • Literary awards • Literature • Olga Tokarczuk • Tokarczuk • Writers