The Tender Narrator https://youtu.be/VvZAXL28K2E Olga Tokarczuk delivered her Nobel Lecture in Literature on Saturday 7 December 2019 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2019General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2019, 16.45 CET. Publication in periodicals or books otherwise than in summary…

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Excerpts from Flights   HERE I AM I’m а few years old. I’m sitting on the window sill, surrounded by strewn toys and toppled-over block towers and dolls with bulging eyes. It’s dark in the house, and the air in the rooms slowly cools, dims. There’s no one else here; they’ve left, they’re gone, though…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4osurAgmjQ Announcement of the Nobel Prizes in Literature for 2018 and 2019, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 10 October 2019.

Interview, December 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WKofYuJGM Interview with Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Olga Tokarczuk answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? – Did you enjoy school? – What did you…

English Biobibliography Olga Tokarczuk was born 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, and lives in Wrocław. Her parents were teachers and her father also functioned as school librarian. In the library she read pretty much everything she could get hold of and it was here that she developed her literary appetite. After studies in psychology at…