It is translated languages, the most famous Polish contemporary author, in all the world – and also in Germany well-known. The Nobel prize Committee in Stockholm has awarded the 1962-born author of the price for 2018.
A Surprise that is not. Olga Tokarczuk was already on the favorites in some betting lists offices. Her Name was also in the previous years, always called again and again, as before the prizes are announced in Stockholm firmly on the next prize-winner has been speculated. Olga Tokarczuk is a figurehead in matters of Polish literature, her works have been translated into all world languages. Of the honor, she learned now, in Germany, where she is currently on book tour for her new novel “Jacob’s books”: “the Nobel prize for literature! Speechless with joy and emotion” was her first reaction to the award, the you now the 10. December will be presented in Stockholm. Tokarczuk gets the last of the year fancy price, Peter Handke the Nobel prize for literature for 2019.
Olga Tokarczuk is also in the German language is well known
In Germany the name is not good, at least in the literary scene, the readers. About a half dozen of your in Polish-written books available in this country in Translation. Several publishers can be pleased to are tokarczuk’s books have been published in the past few years, however, various publishing houses. And also, film lovers familiar with the Name, since at least February of 2017, at the Berlin film festival, The track “play” in the competition for the Golden bear at The mystic of delivery: full movie your land a woman, Agnieszka Holland about the environment, animal welfare and feminism, a film adaptation of tokarczuk’s novel “the song of The bats”.
Animals play in the author’s often have an important role to: the Premiere of the film “Pokot” (“The track”), for the Tokarczuk the book participated in the drafting of biggest
And how can you categorize the literature of the new Nobel prize winner now? This is not very easy. She has written novels, short stories, Essays, travelogues and poetry. But all the genre descriptions of their books meet the limits. “Primeval and other times” was in the year 2000, the German title of your novel “Prawiek i inne czasy” that made you abruptly also well-known abroad. It is a novel that combines fantastic moments as well as historical elements, breaks through traditional time – and space-orders.
Tell the cosmos with many facets: Olga Tokarczuk
That was a trademark of this author. In the novel it is a fictional ostpolnisches town, which is guarded by the four archangels. The residents: quirky protagonists, old and young, who are also archetypes. And also to tell time in two ways: on the one hand, very Concrete, the novel continues to happen in the year of the outbreak of the First world war, spans several decades and reflects Polish history.
Just in Germany, Olga tokarczuk’s new novel published: “The Jakob books”
On the other hand, Olga Tokarczuk’s been expanded here the narrative cosmos into the Fairy-tale, myth is on equal footing with history, Fantastic in addition to highly Real. The author merges time and space – which is also reflected in the style and Aesthetics. A sober, realistic Narrator, the Polish writer is not. When your readers come always and at your cost, to be expected from the literature, more than a realistic paper brought the Image of the world and its inhabitants.
The unconscious as a constant literary companion in the work of tokarczuk’s
If you want to derive their works from their biography, then one quickly reaches the youth of the author. In Warsaw in 1962, in the lower Silesian Sulechów near Zielona Góra-born Olga Tokarczuk psychology had studied. The Swiss Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalytic psychology was to become one of your main areas of interest. The C. G. Jung explored Urstrukturen of human behavior, hidden in the Unconscious, one finds in so many books of the Polish writer.
Olga Tokarczuk two years ago at the Berlinale press conference for the Film “The track”
In Germany, she made her literary debut with “The journey of the book people”. A book person in the past few years, award-winning author, is truly. After completing her studies, she had worked in a home for young people and as a therapist. Later, she founded a publishing house and began to write. This was to be their main activity.
Olga Tokarczuk gives the reader insight into the deep layers of the human Psyche
How people work in your Inner being, so that she had engaged in her studies. However, not everything can derive, explain, define. Since the art had to help often, in Olga tokarczuk’s case, the literature. So her books give insights into the emotional lives of their protagonists, but to explain in a deeper, sometimes difficult to layers of the Unconscious. Religious motives also play a role, such as the tale of the history of man and the history of literature.
In tokarczuk’s book “unrest”, published in Germany in 2009, is ostensibly about traveling, behind, human abysses hide
Olga Tokarczuk as a spiritualized, alone in the world of literature-based author will present, however, would lead to a completely wrong track. In the past years, she has reported often to the word, when it came to social and political events and changes in your home.
As a success for Poland, Minister of culture, Piotr Tadeusz Gliński welcomed the award of his country woman. This is a proof of the high esteem of Polish culture in the world. President Andrzej Duda said it was a great day for the Polish literature. And EU Council President Donald Tusk outs himself as an outspoken Tokarczuk-Fan: He had read everything from the beginning, said Tusk.
Olga Tokarczuk: a Critical companion Polish history
Tokarczuk had made in the recent past, however, only friends in the political Camps on the conservative side. The writer had engaged in many and mixed. In the past year, for example, against the controversial reform of the judiciary, the conservative-nationalist government party, PiS, in the critic as tokarczuk also, a return to undemocratic developments saw.
Came out shortly after the price announcement as Tokarczuk Fan and reader: EU Council President Donald Tusk
Previously, Tokarczuk was taken against the controversial Holocaust-act of the government. Together with other Polish artists they saw in the law an invitation to the falsification of history, for example, on the role of their Polish compatriots during the Second world war, embellished and could be.
“Playing on many drums”, it was titled a collection of short stories in 2006 by her then German publisher. Olga Tokarczuk is, without a doubt, a great writer who understands it to Shine in many areas: as a commentator of the political spirit of the age, but especially as a fine-annoying Narrator of rank. For this she was awarded now the Nobel prize for literature.