Review: Nobel laureate's bloody and moody fairy tale will blow …
WEB23 hours ago · By Olga Tokarczuk; Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator (Riverhead Books; 320 pages; $27) If “The Empusium” soars during its descriptions of stuff and setting — the witchy forest that surrounds the sick house especially seduces, its “moist air, bloated with fragrance … as meaty as food” — it sometimes flags during the dialogue-heavy ...
“Woman, Frog, and Devil,” by Olga Tokarczuk | The New Yorker
WEBMay 26, 2024 · Fiction by Olga Tokarczuk: His father believed that the blame for both national disasters and educational failures lay with a soft upbringing that encouraged girlishness.
Review: Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel Prize novel "Books of Jacob"
WEBFeb 3, 2022 · Approaching with curiosity rather than condemnation, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk made Frank and his followers the subject of her 12th work of fiction, the gargantuan novel “ The Books of...
Fiction in translation: New work from Olga Tokarczuk and Michel ...
WEB4 days ago · In September 1913, this is the grim discovery made by Mieczysław Wojnicz, a young Polish student suffering from tuberculosis in Olga Tokarczuk’s absorbing new novel The Empusium (Fitzcarraldo ...
Olga Tokarczuk - The New York Times
WEBSet in the mid-18th century, Olga Tokarczuk’s enormous novel is about a charismatic self-proclaimed messiah who attracts and repels crowds and authorities in equal measure. News about Olga ...
Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk releases 'The Books of Jacob'
WEBJan 29, 2022 · The latest novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk takes us back to 18th century Eastern Europe. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with her and Jennifer Croft, the translator of "The Books of Jacob...
Olga Tokarczuk on the Power of Words - The New Yorker
WEBSep 13, 2021 · Deborah Treisman interviews the author Olga Tokarczuk about “Yente,” her story from the September 20, 2021, issue of The New Yorker.
Warsaw Tales: An interview with Olga Tokarczuk | OUPblog
WEB3 days ago · Ever since I first read “Che Guevara” in Olga Tokarczuk’s short story collection Playing Many Drums (2001), I have wanted to translate it. So, when I was asked to compile Warsaw Tales, it was one of the first stories to come to mind—an ideal contribution.The story mentions several easily identifiable places within the city and is set in December 1981, at a specific historical moment ...
Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · “It’s fascinating to read poetry in its original form,” says the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, whose latest novel in English is “The Books of Jacob,” “but it’s just as fascinating ...
Review: Polish Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk's 'Drive Your
WEBMar 28, 2023 · The new theatrical adaptation of Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' is a dizzying masterpiece, sewing together the many themes of...
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