39, under the pseudonym Natasza Borodin). In 1979, she debuted with two short stories in prose published in youth scouting magazine Na Przełaj (No. Her family later moved south-east to Kietrz in Opolian Silesia, where she graduated from the C.K. As a child, Tokarczuk liked Henryk Sienkiewicz's popular novel In Desert and Wilderness and fairy tales, among others. Her father was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. The family lived in the countryside in Klenica, some 11 mi away from Zielona Góra, where her parents taught at the People's University and her father also ran a school library in which she found her love of literature. Her parents were resettled from former Polish eastern regions after the Second World War one of her grandmothers was of Ukrainian origin.

She is a daughter of two teachers, Wanda Słabowska and Józef Tokarczuk, and has a sister. Olga Tokarczuk was born in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, in western Poland. In March that year, the novel was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. The Books of Jacob, regarded as her magnum opus, was released in the UK in November 2021 after seven years of translation work, followed by release in the US in February 2022. Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. Tokarczuk faced some backlash from nationalist groups in her homeland after the publication of The Books of Jacob, which is set in 18th-century Poland, because the novel celebrates the country’s cultural diversity. In 2015, she received the German-Polish Bridge Prize for contribution in mutual understanding between European nations. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades she also won five times Nike audience award. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob. For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft).

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'. Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ( born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual.

The Man Booker International Prize (2018).

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