# Olga Tokarczuk

Polish author and activist whose novel "Flights" won the International Booker Prize in 2018, while her sweeping medieval Polish historical novel "The Books of Jacob" is considered one of the most ambitious literary works of the 21st century. Nobel Prize in Literature 2018. Her work explores nomadism, transit, and human connection across time and geography.

## Quick Facts

- **Born:** January 29, 1962
- **Birthplace:** Peglów, Poland
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Occupation:** novelist
- **Category:** Scholars & Educators
- **Also Known As:** Flights Author

## Overview

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Polish authors of her generation. In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.

## Wikipedia Context

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## Sources

Primary source page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk

## Timeline

### 1962 — Birth
Birth of Olga Tokarczuk.

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