![]() In March that year, the novel was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. The Books of Jacob, regarded as her magnum opus, was released in the UK in November 2021 after seven years of translation work, followed by release in the US in February 2022. Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. Tokarczuk faced some backlash from nationalist groups in her homeland after the publication of The Books of Jacob, which is set in 18th-century Poland, because the novel celebrates the country’s cultural diversity. ![]() In 2015, she received the German-Polish Bridge Prize for contribution in mutual understanding between European nations. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades she also won five times Nike audience award. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. ![]() Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. (1995), a narrative reckoning with Carl Jung and the psychoanalytic enterprise, was followed by Primeval and Other Times (1996, translation 2010), which became a national bestseller. ![]() The Man Booker International Prize (2018) Olga Tokarczuk is young for a Nobel Prize winner. ![]()
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