Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk is considered the most important Polish author of her generation. In 2018 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, having previously won the Man Booker International Prize (in 2008) and Poland’s most prestigious literary prize, the Nike Award (in 2015). In addition to The Empusium, the following books by her have been published in Dutch translation: Bieguni (Flights), Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob), Prawiek i inne czasy (Primeval and Other Times), Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead) and Czuły narrator (The Tender Narrator).

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