Olga Tokarczuk News & Updates

‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers

More than 180 writers sign letter renewing calls for information on 12 authors detained incommunicad...

Sep 18, 2026 • The Guardian

Non-Asian female writers top Nobel literature prize predictions

Who will receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature? As the announcement approaches at 8 p.m. (...

Sep 29, 2026 • The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Has Olga Tokarczuk Been Struck by the Nobel Curse?

With its million-dollar purse and instant prestige, the Nobel Prize in Literature can secure or even...

Sep 24, 2024 • Vulture

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's art book hits bookstores

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 file photo, Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk...

Feb 21, 2021 • WSLS 10

'Open your eyes': Olga Tokarczuk's short stories inspire Polish Theatre play

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crime story that is meant to...

Jun 01, 2026 • Yahoo

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk receives Laxness International Literary Prize

Polish Nobel Prize–winning writer Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2026 Halldór Laxness Int...

Aug 29, 2026 • Polskie Radio

Fiction: Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ Review

In 1665 in the Turkish city of Smyrna, an obscure Jewish mystic named Sabbatai Tzvi proclaimed himse...

Jan 28, 2022 • Wall Street Journal

Olga Tokarczuk’s New Rules for Realism

Olga Tokarczuk’s new rules for realism. In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since...

Jan 15, 2025 • The Nation

Olga Tokarczuk Nominated for the National Book Award Longlist!

Man Booker International Prize-winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has found herself on the longlis...

Oct 16, 2018 • culture.pl

Polish Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk Awarded 2026 Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize

Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk has been named recipient of the 2026 Halldór Laxness Internati...

Sep 22, 2026 • Yahoo Finance

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk: ‘enchanting meditation on metamorphosis and connection’

Early on in Olga Tokarczuk's beguilingly experimental Flights, the narrator casually mentions that o...

Apr 13, 2018 • The Irish Times

Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck.

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was not a household name in the United States when she won the 2018 Nob...

Feb 01, 2022 • Washington Post

What’s worth reading? Our critics tackle 10 new books

From Cold War spies to outback noir and gloriously useless footy stats, here are the verdicts....

Sep 10, 2026 • The Sydney Morning Herald on MSN

Review: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

It has been a century since the publication of Thomas Mann’s cult classic, The Magic Mountain, con...

Oct 16, 2024 • Hindustan Times

Lesley Manville takes on Cold War Poland in Winter of the Crow trailer

Lesley Manville battles snow and spies in the trailer for upcoming Cold War thriller “Winter of th...

Sep 03, 2026 • Variety on MSN

Lesley Manville Tries to Escape Cold War Martial Law in Intense Winter of the Crow Trailer

Lesley Manville is on the run in the new trailer for Winter of the Crow. The upcoming thriller takes...

Sep 03, 2026 • Yahoo

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk wins Iceland's prestigious literary prize

Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk has been named the winner of this year's Halldor Laxness Intern...

Feb 09, 2026 • Polish Press Agency

Primeval and Other Times — Olga Tokarczuk’s exhilarating, genre-defying fairy tale

The Nobel Prize-winner’s kaleidoscopic novel, newly reissued, charts the stories of a Polish villa...

Aug 25, 2026 • Financial Times

Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk releases 'The Books of Jacob'

The latest novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk takes us back to 18th century Eastern Europe. ...

Jan 29, 2022 • NPR

Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Nobel literature prizes

Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke—two writers whose works are deeply...

Oct 10, 2019 • Phys.org

Olga Tokarczuk on the Power of Words

The plot of “Yente,” your story in this week’s issue, revolves around a dying old woman, who i...

Sep 13, 2021 • The New Yorker

Literaturtage: Erste Veranstaltungen bereits ausgebucht

Das Programm bietet 60 Termine an 45 Orten – unter anderem mit Olga Tokarczuk, Meike Rötzer, Vinc...

Aug 24, 2026 • Main-Post

Polish Nobel laureate Tokarczuk unveils title of new novel

Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk has revealed the title of her new novel, which she has describe...

Jul 10, 2026 • Polskie Radio

The Lost Soul – Olga Tokarczuk

After publishing ‘The Books of Jacob’ in Poland in 2013, the historical epic that has been consi...

Feb 23, 2021 • culture.pl

Olga Tokarczuk Wins Man Booker International Prize

On 22nd May 2018, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for he...

May 22, 2018 • culture.pl

‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s wo...

Mar 31, 2019 • The Monthly

Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead review - on vengeful nature

The authorities of the wider conurbation provoke distrust – kickbacks and dirty dealings are rife....

Sep 08, 2018 • The Arts Desk

Rewriting Poland

“Flights. . . got a new lease on life,” Olga Tokarczuk told a Polish journalist in May after her...

Sep 17, 2018 • Boston Review

Olga Tokarczuk wins Nobel prize in literature for 2018, Peter Handke for 2019

The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded two Nobel Prizes for Literature. The Polish author Olga Toka...

Oct 10, 2019 • Hindustan Times

Presentation Of Olga Tokarczuk's Book “Anna In The Tombs Of The World” In Sofia

Today, on February 6th, the Polish Institute in Sofia will present the book “Anna In the Tombs of ...

Feb 06, 2024 • Novinite