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The Swinging Light

Keep The Light On

Olga Tokarczuk

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Olga Tokarczuk

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). ---------- Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019, 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 has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft). Her works include Primeval and *Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,* and *The Books of Jacob.* [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk)

Bibliography

Books

27 books

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E.E

1995

Olga Tokarczuk

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Bad Company

2002

Ian Jack, Adrian Leftwich, Jon McGregor, Rory Stewart, Olga Tokarczuk, Rachel Cusk, Deirdre O'Callaghan, Milan Kundera, Jonathan Tel, Todd McEwen, Edmund White, Gary Shteyngart, Arthur Miller

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Naar de stad

2012

Mehmet Zaman Saçlıoğlu, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ali Smith, Wells Tower, Khan Mohammad Sind, Alejandro Zambra, Olga Tokarczuk, Gyrðir Elíasson, Etgar Keret, David Constantine, Arkadi Babtsjenko, Fouad Laroui, Carlos Fuentes

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NieObcy

2015

Joanna Bator, Jan Bajtlik, Katarzyna Bonda, Halina Bortnowska, Sylwia Chutnik, Joanna Fabicka, Paweł Huelle, Piotr Ibrahim Kalwas, Ignacy Karpowicz, Hanna Krall, Jarosław Mikołajewski, Łukasz Orbitowski, Magdalena Parys, Małgorzata Rejmer, Paweł Smoleński, Olga Stanisławska, Andrzej Stasiuk, Dionisios Sturis, Ziemowit Szczerek, Małgorzata Szejnert, Olga Tokarczuk, Mirosław Wlekły, Katarzyna Szyngiera