Polish writer and poetess, one of the most prominent figures in modern Polish literature.
Born into a family of immigrants from Ukraine. She graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, then worked as a psychotherapist in Walbrzych. Now lives in Wroclaw. Member of the Green Party and the editorial board of the left-liberal journal “Political Criticism”.She made her debut with a collection of poems. Her first novel, The Way of the Book People, was published in 1993. The novel “Runners” brought her the most prestigious literary award in the country, “Nike” (2008). Tokarczuk is also a master of short prose. Critics classify Olga Tokarczuk as a representative of the so-called “young prose of the 1990s.” Her works have been translated into many languages.
In 2019, Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her narrative imagination that imagines border crossing as a form of life with encyclopedic precision."In 2023, the most ambitious novel, Olga Tokarczuk’s epic “The Books of Jacob,” will be published in Russian, in which she unfolds and turns the history of Poland and Polish Jews from the 18th-century false messiah Jacob Frank to the horrific tragedy of the 20th century.
