Tokarchuk biography

The origin and education of Olga Tokarchuk was born on January 29 of the year in the city of Sulekhov in the west of Poland in a family of teachers. The paternal line has Ukrainian roots. In the year, she graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of the Warsaw University. In his student years, she looked as a volunteer for mentally ill people. After completing the training, she worked as a psychotherapist in a clinic in Valbzhikha.

The writer's career Olga Tokarchuk began to try her forces in literature as far as adolescence. Her first stories - "Christmas kills fish" and "my friends" - were published in the year in the youth magazine "Straight" under the pseudonym Natasha Borodina.

In the year, her first collection of poems “Miasta W Lustrac was printed. In it, the author tells the story about the search for two people of the mysterious book during which they fall in love with each other. The novel was awarded the award of the Polish Society of Book publishers and translated into many European languages. The second novel of the writer was released in the year -“ E.

Success came to Olga Tokarchuk in the year, when her romance "Pramze and other times" was published about the village in the center of Poland, in which all famous human joys and sorrows are supposedly concentrated. In the year, for this book, she received the prize of the journal "Politics" and the Prize of the Fund. Cossal, and was also nominated for the largest non -state literary prize of Poland Nike.

The novel entered the school curriculum and was translated into 20 languages. In the year, the novel "Daytime House, Night House" was published, the center of the story of which is the house in the village of Peneto, in which the sun does not penetrate from October to May. In the year, it was released in the form of a simple text file on the Internet and this fact is considered the beginning of the development of the Polish electronic books market.

In the year, Tokarchuk published the novel "Last Stories", telling about the closed circle of life and death in the fate of three generations of women. Her novel "Beguna", which came out in the year and dedicated to the topic of travel, consists of separate novels, essays and travel entries, was highly noted by critics. In addition, in the year she became the first Polish writer to receive the International Buker Prize.

In the year, Tokarchuk released the novel "Inhab the Bones of the Dead" about a series of mysterious murders in the Polish village. In the year, on the basis of this book, the crime drama of the Agnieshki Hollan "Trace of the Beast", which received the "Silver Bear" of the Berlin Film Festival, was shot. In the year, the writer published the historical novel "The Book of Jacob, or a big journey through seven borders, five languages ​​and three large religions, not counting the little ones." For this work, Tokarchuk was awarded the Nike award.

This work was in many book ratings in Poland. Thus, the Polish Newsweek magazine placed him in the list of 10 books of the year, calling him "the first Polish novel, which fits into the world Renaissance of the Great Historical Epica." In addition to the novels, Tokarchuk is the author of poems, stories, essays, etc. The last book at the moment was a collection of stories "Outlandish Stories", released in the year.

Awards Olga Tokarchuk are the owner of numerous literary awards both in Poland and beyond. In addition to the Nike Nike and the International Buker Prize, it received a silver medal "For Merit in the Gloria Artis culture" for contribution to the development of culture; Poland, Viliennitsa Prize; It is awarded to writers of Eastern and Central Europe, a prize named after Jan Mikhalsky; Switzerland and others.

Personal information is currently Olga Tokarchuk lectures on the skill of writing prose in the literary and art studio of the University of Jagello in Krakow. It consists in the left "Party of Green", and is also part of the editorial board of the journal "Political Criticism". He lives in Vroclav.