Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. 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”.
For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland’s top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
Books in order of publication:
Books (In English) in order of publication:
House of Day, House of Night – 2003
Primeval and Other Times -2010
Flights – 2018
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – 2019
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story – 2022
Dallas Council of Garden Clubs (DCGC) 