![]() ![]() While explaining their decision, the panel’s chairman Professor Anders Olsson said: “She is a writer preoccupied with local life, but at the same time inspired by maps and speculative thought, looking at life on Earth from above. The book was also nominated for the American National Book Award. The 57-year-old is the most recognized Polish author of her generation abroad, wining the Man Booker International prize for the best work of translated fiction for her novel ‘Flights’ last year. Novelist, poet and essayist Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday.Īnnouncing the winners, judges commended Tokarczuk “for her narrative imagination, that with encyclopaedic passion, represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." The Swedish Academy said Tokarczuk had won the prize for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." ![]()
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