Inspiring

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk (born in 1962), a writer, an intellectual and an activist. Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy appreciated her “narrative imagination, imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

In his books, which have been translated into 37 languages, she reveals remarkable sensitivity to other people, as well as to the fate of animals. Her prose is often referred to as ‘magical realism’ because she often weaves metaphysical motives into her stories.

Olga Tokarczuk is an attentive observer of reality, but also an active participant in social life. She speaks up on the defense of refugees, civil rights and minority rights, supports homosexual partnerships and takes part in equality marches.

Based on her novel “Drive your plow through the bones of the dead” (2009), Agnieszka Holland made an incredible film entitled “Spoor”, in which the main character, a teacher at a local school, takes revenge on several influential residents for the barbaric treatment of the nature and animals.