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Olga Tokarczuk

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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk[1]([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk];born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist,[2]andpublic intellectual.[3]She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the2018 Nobel Prize in Literatureas 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 novelFlights,Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018Man Booker International Prize.Her works includePrimeval and Other Times,Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,andThe Books of Jacob.

Olga Tokarczuk
Tokarczuk in 2019
Tokarczuk in 2019
BornOlga Nawoja Tokarczuk
(1962-01-29)29 January 1962(age 62)
Sulechów,Poland
Occupation
  • Writer
  • psychologist
  • screenwriter
LanguagePolish
EducationUniversity of Warsaw(MA)
PeriodContemporary
Genres
Literary movementMagic realism
Years active1989–present
Notable works
Notable awards
Signature

Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. Aclinical psychologistfrom theUniversity of Warsaw,she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorterproseworks. ForFlightsandThe Books of Jacob,she won theNike Awards,Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times. In 2015, she received the German-PolishBridge Prizefor her contribution tomutual understandingbetween European nations.

Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers.[4]The Books of Jacob,regarded as hermagnum opus,was released in the UK in November 2021 after seven years of translation work,[5]followed by release in the US in February 2022.[6]In March that year, the novel was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.[7]

Biography

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Early life, and education

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Olga Tokarczuk was born inSulechównearZielona Góra,in western Poland. She is the daughter of two teachers, Wanda Słabowska and Józef Tokarczuk, and has a sister.[8]Her parents were resettled fromformer Polish eastern regionsafter theSecond World War;one of her grandmothers was ofUkrainianorigin.[9][10][11]The family lived in the countryside inKlenica,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.[12]Her father was a member of thePolish United Workers' Party.[13]As a child, Tokarczuk likedHenryk Sienkiewicz's popular novelIn Desert and Wildernessandfairy tales,among others.[14]Her family later moved south-east toKietrzinOpolian Silesia,where she graduated from theC.K. Norwidhigh school.[15]In 1979, she debuted with two short stories in prose published in youth scouting magazineNa Przełaj(No. 39, under the pseudonym Natasza Borodin).[citation needed]

Tokarczuk went on to studyclinical psychologyat theUniversity of Warsawin 1980, and during her studies, she volunteered in an asylum for adolescents with behavioural problems.[16]After graduation in 1985, she moved toWrocławand later toWałbrzych,where she worked as apsychotherapistin 1986–89 and teachers' trainer in 1989–96. In the meantime, she published poems and reviews in the press and published a book of poetry in 1989. Her works were awarded at Walbrzych Literary Paths (1988, 1990).[8]Tokarczuk quit to concentrate on literature, she also said she felt "more neurotic than [her] clients".[12]She worked doing odd jobs in London for a while, improving her English, and went for literary scholarships in the United States (1996) and in Berlin (2001/02).[8]

Inspiration, and family

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Tokarczuk inKraków,Poland (2005)

Tokarczuk considers herself a disciple ofCarl Jungand cites his psychology as an inspiration for her literary work.[17][18][19]

Since 1998, she has lived betweenKrajanówand Wrocław, inLower Silesia.Her home in Krajanów nearNowa Rudais located in theSudetesmountains at the multi-culturalPolish-Czech borderland.The locale has influenced her literary work;[15]the novelHouse of Day, House of Night(1998) touches on life in the adopted home, and the action ofDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead(2009) takes place in the picturesqueKłodzko Valley.In 1998, together with her first husband, Tokarczuk founded the Rutapublishing house,which operated until 2004.[8]She was an organizer of the International Short Story Festival, which was inaugurated in Wrocław in 2004. As a guest lecturer, she conducted prose workshops at universities inKrakówandOpole.Tokarczuk joined the editorial team ofKrytyka Polityczna(Eng. ed.Political Critique), a magazine as well as a large pan-regional network of institutions and activists, and currently serves on theBoard of trusteesof its academic and research unit – Institute for Advance Study in Warsaw. She has also travelled around the world.[8][20]

In 2009, Tokarczuk received a literary scholarship from theNetherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,and during her stay at theNIAScampus inWassenaar,she wrote her novelDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,which was published the same year.[8][14]

Roman Fingas, a fellow psychologist, was Tokarczuk's first husband. They married when she was 23 and later divorced; their son Zbigniew was born in 1986. Grzegorz Zygadło is her second husband. She is a vegetarian.[14]

Literary career

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Olga Tokarczuk's first book was published in 1989, a collection of poems entitledMiasta w lustrach(Cities in Mirrors).[16]Her debut novel,Podróż ludzi księgi(The Journey of the Book-People), was published in 1993. Aparableon two lovers' quest for the "secret of the Book" – a metaphor for the meaning of life – is set in the 17th century, and portrays an expedition to a monastery in thePyreneeson the trail of a book that reveals the mystery of life, ending with an ironic twist. It was well received by critics and won the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut.[21]

The follow-up novel,E.E.(1995), plays with the conventions of themodernistpsychological novel,and took its title from the initials of its protagonist, the adolescent Erna Eltzner, who developspsychicabilities. Growing up in a wealthy German-Polish family in the 1920s inWrocław,which was at that time a German city named Breslau, she allegedly becomes a medium, a fact her mother begins to take advantage of by organizingspiritual sessions.Tokarczuk introduces the characters of scientists, the psychiatrist-patient relationship, and despite elements ofspiritualism,occultismas well asgnosticism,she represents psychological realism and cognitivescepticism.Katarzyna Kantner, a literary scholar who defended her PhD thesis on the works of Olga Tokarczuk, points to C. G. Jung's doctoral dissertation "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" as an inspiration.[17][22]

Her third novel,Primeval and Other Times(Prawiek i inne czasy,Eng. 2010), was published in 1996 and became highly successful. It is set in the fictitious village of Primeval at the very heart of Poland, which is populated by some eccentric,archetypicalcharacters. The village, a microcosm of Europe, is guarded by four archangels, from whose perspective the book chronicles the lives of its inhabitants over a period of eight decades, beginning in the year thatWorld War Ibroke out.[23]The book presents the creation of a myth emerging before the reader's eyes. "This is Primeval: an enclosed snow globe, a world in itself, which it may or may not be possible to ever leave. [...] And yet, as much as the town of Primeval is devastated, over and over, by history, there is also a counter dream, full of creaturely magic and wonder."[24]Translated into many languages, with English version byAntonia Lloyd-Jones,Primeval and Other Timesestablished Tokarczuk's international reputation as one of the most important representatives ofPolish literaturein her generation.[25][26]

AfterPrimeval and Other Times,her work began drifting away from the novel genre towards shorter prose texts and essays. Tokarczuk's next bookSzafa(The Wardrobe, 1997) was a collection of three novella-type stories.

House of Day, House of Night(Dom dzienny, dom nocny,1998, Eng. 2003), is what Tokarczuk terms the 'constellation novel', a patchwork of loosely connected disparate stories, sketches, and essays about life past and present in the author's adopted home in Krajanów, which allow various interpretations and enable communication at a deeper, psychological level. Her goal is to make those images, fragments of narrative and motif, merge only on entering the reader's consciousness. While some, at least those unfamiliar withCentral European history,have labelled it Tokarczuk's most "difficult" piece, it was her first book to be published in English and was shortlisted for theInternational Dublin Literary Awardin 2004.[27][28]

Tokarczuk (left) and directorAgnieszka Hollandin 2017

House of Day, House of Nightwas followed by a collection of short storiesGra na wielu bębenkach(Playing on Many Drums, 2001) as well as a book-length non-fiction essayLalka i perła(The Doll and the Pearl, 2000), on the subject ofBolesław Prus' classic novelThe Doll.[29]She also published a volume with three modern Christmas tales, together with her fellow writersJerzy PilchandAndrzej Stasiuk(Opowieści wigilijne,2000).[30]Ostatnie historie(The Last Stories) of 2004 is an exploration of death from the perspectives of three generations, while the novelAnna in the Tombs of the World(2006) was a contribution to theCanongate Myth Seriesby Polish publisherZnak.

Tokarczuk's novelFlights(Bieguni,2007, Eng. 2018) returns to the patchwork approach of essay and fiction, the major theme of which is modern-day nomads. The book explores how a person moves through time and space as well as the psychology of travelling.[31][32][33]ForFlights,she has been awarded both the jury and the readers prize of PolishNike Awardsin 2008, and then the 2018Man Booker International Prize(translation byJennifer Croft).[3]The novel landed on the short list for the U.S. prestigiousNational Book Awardin the "Translated Literature" category; a panel of judges stated:[34]

Through [...] brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations,Flightsexplores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original,Flightsis a master storyteller’s answer.

In 2009, Tokarczuk published an existential,noirthriller novelDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead(Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych,Eng. 2019), which is not a conventional crime story, transforming into an acid social satire. The main character and narrator is Janina Duszejko, a woman in her 60s living in a rural area in the PolishKłodzko Valley,eccentric in perception of other humans throughastrologyand fond of the poetry ofWilliam Blake,from whose work the title of the book is taken. She decides to investigate the murders of members of the local hunting club and initially explains these deaths as having been caused by wild animals taking revenge on hunters.[35][36][37]The novel became a bestseller in Poland.[38]It was the basis of thecrime filmSpoor(2017) directed byAgnieszka Holland,which won theAlfred Bauer Prize(Silver Bear) at the67th Berlin International Film Festival.[39]The English translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones earned Tokarczuk a second nomination for the Man Booker International Prize. In 2022, a stage version of the novel was produced by the British theatre companyComplicité.[citation needed]

Tokarczuk during presentation of movieSpoorat theBerlinale 2017

An epic novelThe Books of Jacob(2014, English translation 2021 by Jennifer Croft) is a journey over seven borders, five languages, and three major religions. Beginning in 1752 at the historical easternGaliciaregion,now western Ukraine, it revolves around a controversial 18th-centuryPolish-Jewishreligious leader and mysticJacob Frankamong other historical figures, and winds up near mid-20th-centuryKorolówka,Poland, where a family of local Jews had hidden from theHolocaust.Frank, who founded theFrankistsectfighting for the rights and emancipation of the Jews, encouraged his followers to transgress moral boundaries, even promoting orgiastic rites. The Frankists were persecuted in the Jewish community, especially after Frank led his followers to bebaptisedby the Roman Catholic church. The church later imprisoned him for heresy for more than a decade, only for Frank to declare that he was themessiah.Through third-person accounts, the action takes place in present-day Turkey, Greece, Austria and Germany, capturing regional spirit, climate as well as interesting customs.Jan Michalski Prizejury praised:[40]

A work of immense erudition with a powerful epic sweep. [...] The thematic richness is impressive. The story of the Frankists, rendered through a series of mythic narratives, is transformed into a universal epic tale of the struggle against rigid thinking, either religious or philosophical, that ostracize and enslave people. An extensive and prolific work that warns against our inability to embrace an environment complex in its diversity, fueling a fanatical sectarianism which ends in disaster.The Books of Jacob,by telling the past with a dazzling virtuosity, helps us to better understand the world in which we live.

Regarding the historical and ideological divides ofPolish literature,the book has been characterized as anti-Sienkiewicz.It was soon acclaimed by critics and readers alike, but its reception has been hostile in some Polishnationalistcircles and Olga Tokarczuk became a target of some internet hate and harassment campaign.[41][42]

In 2022, she publishedThe Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story.It was translated into English in 2024 byAntonia Lloyd-Jones.It was inspired byThe Magic Mountain,byThomas Mann.[43][44][45][46]

Literary Heights Festival

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Tokarczuk andKarol Maliszewskiat theLiterary Heights Festival(2018)

Since its foundation in 2015, Olga Tokarczuk has become co-host of the annualLiterary Heights Festival,which has included events in her village. The festival has a rich programme of cultural events such as educational sessions and workshops, debates, concerts, film screenings as well as various exhibitions.

Olga Tokarczuk Foundation

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In November 2019, Tokarczuk established an eponymous foundation with a planned wide range of literature-related activities to create a progressive intellectual and artistic centre. It was declared that Polish poetTymoteusz Karpowicz's villa inWrocławwould become its future seat.[47]The writer allocated 10 per cent of her Nobel financial prize to the body and, aside from her, Agnieszka Holland and Ireneusz Grin have joined the Foundation Council. The foundation started its operations in October 2020 implementing educational programs, organizing writing contests and public debates, and funding scholarships for young aspiring writers as well as international, residencies.[48]

Views

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Tokarczuk is a leftist and afeminist.[49][50][51]She has been criticized by some nationalist groups in Poland as unpatriotic, anti-Christian and a promoter ofeco-terrorism.[52][50]She has denied the allegations, has described herself as a "true patriot" and said that groups criticizing her arexenophobicand damage Poland's international reputation.[53][54][55]A vocal critic ofantisemitism in Poland,Tokarczuk has said that "There's no Polish culture without Jewish culture". She has often denounced Poland for having "committed horrendous acts as colonizers, as a national majority that suppressed the minority [Jews], as slaveowners, and as the murderers of Jews". Her many public denunciations of Polish antisemitism have earned her animosity from some members of the Polish nationalist right.[56]

In 2015, after the publication ofThe Books of Jacob,Tokarczuk was criticized by theNowa RudaPatriots association, who demanded that the town's council revoke the writer'shonorary citizenshipof Nowa Ruda because, as the association claimed, she had tarnished the good name of the Polish nation. Those people's postulate was supported bySenatorWaldemar Bonkowski of theLaw and JusticeParty, according to whom Tokarczuk's literary output and public statements are in "absolute contradiction to the assumptions of the Polish historical politics". Tokarczuk asserted that she is the true patriot, not the people and groups who criticize her, and whose allegedxenophobicand racist attitudes and actions are harmful to Poland and its image abroad.[53][54][55]

In 2020, she was one of the signatories alongside other prominent writers such asMargaret Atwood,John BanvilleandJ. M. Coetzeeof an open letter addressed to the President of the European Commission,Ursula von der Leyen,urging the European Union "to take immediate steps to defend core European values – equality, non-discrimination, respect for minorities – which are being blatantly violated in Poland" and appealing to the Polish government to stop targeting sexual minorities and to withdraw support from organizations promoting homophobia.[57][58]

Awards and recognition

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Olga Tokarczuk is the laureate of numerous literary awards both in and outside Poland. Her works have become the subject of several dozen academic papers and theses.[59]

Her first recognition, in 2004, was for the English translation (byAntonia Lloyd-Jones) of her 1998 novelHouse of Day, House of Night,which was shortlisted for theInternational Dublin Literary Award.[60]

Five of Tokarczuk's books were finalists for theNike Award,[61]the most important Polish literary accolade, and two of them won the prize:Flightsin 2008, andThe Books of Jacobin 2015.[62][49]

In 2010, Tokarczuk received the SilverMedal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.[63]In 2013, she was awarded theSloveneVilenica Prize.[18]

Tokarczuk (left) withJennifer Croft,translator ofFlightsandThe Books of Jacob,andLisa Appignanesi,Chair of the 2018Man Booker International Prizejudges

She is the recipient of the 2015Brückepreis,the 20th edition of the award granted by the "Europa-CityZgorzelec/Görlitz".The prize is a joint undertaking of the German and Polish bordertwin citiesaimed at advancing mutual, regional and European peace, understanding and cooperation among people of different nationalities, cultures and viewpoints. Particularly appreciated by the jury was Tokarczuk's creation of literary bridges connecting people, generations and cultures, especially residents of the border territories of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, who have had often different existential and historical experiences. Also stressed was Tokarczuk's "rediscovery" and elucidation of the complex multinational and multicultural past of theLower Silesiaregion, an area of great political conflicts. Attending the award ceremony in Görlitz, Tokarczuk was impressed by the positive and pragmatic attitude demonstrated by the mayor of the German town regarding the currentrefugee and migrant crisis,which she contrasted with the ideological uproar surrounding the issue in Poland.[64][53][65][66]

ForThe Books of Jacob,Tokarczuk was awarded the 2016Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literary PrizeinStockholm.[67]The French translation of the novel was recognized as the 2018 "Best European novel" by France's cultural magazineTransfuge.It also won the 2018 SwissJan Michalski Prize,and the 2019 FrenchPrix Laure Bataillonfor the best foreign-language book translated in the previous year.[40][68]

In 2018,Flights(English translation byJennifer Croft) was awarded theMan Booker International Prize.[3][69]

A year later,Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead(translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.[70]

Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018Nobel Prize for Literaturein 2019 for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" and delivered the Nobel Lecture,The Tender Narrator,on 7 December of that year.[71]The 2018 award had been postponeddue to controversy within the Nobel committee.[72][73][12][74]

In 2020, she received the title of anHonorary Citizen of Warsawas a recognition of her literary achievements.[75]

In 2021, Tokarczuk received the titles of aDoctor Honoris Causafrom theUniversity of Warsaw,University of Wrocław,and then from theKraków'sJagiellonian University.[76][77][78]She also became Honorary Citizen of Kraków.[79]

She was elected aRoyal Society of LiteratureInternational Writer in November 2021.[80]

In March 2022,The Books of Jacob(translated by Jennifer Croft) was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize,[81]subsequently being shortlisted in April.[82]In June 2022, she was awarded an Honorary Degree from theSofia University[83][84]and in May 2023 from theTel Aviv University.[85]

In September 2024, theEuropese Literatuurprijswas awarded to her latest bookThe Empusium.[86]

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • Podróż ludzi Księgi[Journey of the People of the Book] (in Polish). Warszawa: Przedświt. 1993.
  • E.E.(in Polish). Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1995.
  • Prawiek i inne czasy(in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 1996.
  • Dom dzienny, dom nocny(in Polish). Wałbrzych: Ruta. 1998.
  • Ostatnie historie[Final stories] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2017 [2004].
  • Anna In w grobowcach świata[Anna In in the tombs of the world] (in Polish). Kraków: Znak. 2006.
  • Bieguni[Flights] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2007.
  • Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych[Drive your plow over the bones of the dead] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2009.
  • Księgi Jakubowe[The Books of Jacob] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2014.
  • Empuzjon(in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2022.

Short fiction

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  • Gra na wielu bębenkach: 19 opowiadań[Playing on many drums: 19 stories] (in Polish). Wałbrzych: Ruta. 2001.
  • Opowiadania bizarne[Bizarre stories] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2018.
Stories[a]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Yente 2021 Tokarczuk, Olga (20 September 2021)."Yente".The New Yorker.97(29). Translated byCroft, Jennifer:60–65.

Poetry

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  • Miasto w lustrach[The city in mirrors] (in Polish). Warszawa: Zarząd Główny Związku Socjalistycznej Młodzieży Polskiej. 1989.

Nonfiction

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  • Szafa[The wardrobe] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2005 [1997].
  • Tokarczuk, Olga;Jerzy Pilch&Andrzej Stasiuk(2000).Opowieści wigilijne[Christmas tales] (in Polish). Wałbrzych: Czarna Ruta.
  • Tokarczuk, Olga &Czesław Miłosz(2019) [2001].Lalka i perła[The doll and the pearl] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie.
  • Moment niedźwiedzia[The moment of the bear] (in Polish). Warszawa: Krytyki Politycznej. 2012.
  • Czuły narrator[The tender narrator] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2020.

Children's books

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Notes

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  1. ^Short stories unless otherwise noted.

See also

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References

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