![]() ![]() Boundaries and border crossings - both physical and psychological - remain vital elements in her work. ![]() Since then, she has risen to critical acclaim worldwide, winning Poland’s Nike Award, the Brückepreis for promoting mutual understanding between European nations, and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature “ for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. Tokarczuk’s first collection of poems was published in 1989, and her first novel in 1993. The lecture title, “The Tender Narrator”, elegantly describes Tokarczuk’s unique narrative style: rather like a therapist’s, her approach to writing is marked by love, gentleness, and genuine curiosity about her characters’ lives and motivations.īorn in Sulechów, Poland, in 1962, she originally worked as a clinical psychologist before starting to write - first poetry, and later the novels that brought her international recognition. “Tenderness is the art of personifying, sharing feelings, and therefore discovering endless similarities,” Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk said in her Nobel Prize talk in 2018. ![]()
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