I write fiction, but it is never pure fabrication. When I write, I have to feel everything inside myself. I have to let all the living beings and obj… - Olga Tokarczuk

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I write fiction, but it is never pure fabrication. When I write, I have to feel everything inside myself. I have to let all the living beings and objects that appear in the book go through me, everything that is human and beyond human, everything that is living and not endowed with life. I have to take a close look at each thing and person, with the greatest solemnity, and personify them inside myself, personalize them.

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About Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer. For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.

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Pen Names: Natasza Borodin
Native Name: Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk
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