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Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house.
- Interview, December 2019
- Short Interview, December 2019
- Telephone Interview, October 2019
Interview with Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Read the interview Olga Tokarczuk answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): 0:06– Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? 1:35– Did you enjoy school? 2:31– What did you want to be whe...
“Curiosity is an important motivation”
In this interview from the Nobel Banquet on 10 December 2019, Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk talks about her childhood dream of being a scientist, curiosity as motivation and the importance of translators.
“Such a prize will, in a way, give us a kind of optimism”
Telephone interview with Olga Tokarczuk after the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature on 10 October 2019. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. Olga Tokarczuk speaks of the importance of the award of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as a symbol of hope for those worried about the ‘Crisis in democracy’ she sees facing central Europe. She received the news from the Swedish Academy while driving on a book tour in Germany for the launch the Germa...
Interview transcript
Olga Tokarczuk: Hello, Olga Tokarczuk speaking. Adam Smith: Oh hello, my name is Adam Smith. I’m speaking from Nobelprize.org, the website of the Nobel Prize. Many congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize. OT: Thank you so much. I am in the car still and I cannot, you know, really drive, and I have to be in the evening in Bielefeld. AS: So, how did you hear the news? OT: Funny situation because I am, as I told you, on the road. We are driving in Germany, so they called me from Nobel Ac...
Sep 24, 2018 · “Flights,” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead), is exciting in the way that unclassifiable things are exciting—that is to say, at times confoundingly so. It is intermittently a...
Dec 7, 2019 · The ship is commanded by Christopher Columbus. The sun is shining, there are sailors going to and fro on the quay, and there are stevedores loading the last crates of provisions on board. It is hot, but a light breeze from the west saves the families who have come to say farewell from fainting.
May 26, 2024 · Fiction by Olga Tokarczuk: His father believed that the blame for both national disasters and educational failures lay with a soft upbringing that encouraged girlishness.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk [1] ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, [2] and public intellectual. [3] She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.
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Sep 24, 2024 · Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer known for her wry and complex novels, including Primeval and Other Times (1996) and Flights (2017). A best-selling author in Poland, Tokarczuk received worldwide attention when she won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature.
