Flights review olga6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Her insistence on tackling the long entwinement of Polish and Jewish cultures and the notion of gender as fluid-and as a social construct-has made her a controversial figure in her conservative home country of Poland. ![]() She received the award four years ago, at fifty-seven, for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” Her painstakingly researched novels recover forgotten chapters of Eastern and Central Europe’s multilingual, multicultural history, drawing on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, tarot, and pre-Christian paganism. Olga Tokarczuk is young for a Nobel Prize winner. In her bookstore in Wałbrzych in the late eighties. Courtesy of Olga Tokarczuk. Interviewed by Marta Figlerowicz Issue 243, Spring 2023 ![]()
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