The critically-acclaimed author discusses the beauty she sees in English-language translation.
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland
She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life’. Her novel Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, won the International Booker Prize 2018. Her other work includes Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.
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Flights
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2018
- Translated by
- Jennifer Croft
- Published by
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
Olga Tokarczuk’s unique novel interweaves reflections on travel with an exploration of human anatomy - examining life and death, motion and migration
Other nominated books
Olga Tokarczuk's portrayal of Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence
Olga Tokarczuk’s subversive, entertaining neo-noir is both gripping and thought-provoking, and anything but a conventional crime novel
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