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Olga Tokarczuk

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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Tokarczuk is the 680th most popular writer (down from 615th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Poland (down from 126th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Writer.

Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer who is most famous for her novel, Flights.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 680 out of 7,302. Before her are Max Frisch, Bernard Gui, Longus, Faxian, Jaroslav Seifert, and Zecharia Sitchin. After her are Gerald Gardner, Pietro Metastasio, Ferenc Molnár, Joseph Murphy, Daphne du Maurier, and Walter Raleigh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 17. Before her are Jodie Foster, Frank Rijkaard, Claudia Sheinbaum, Nicolás Maduro, Keir Starmer, and Ralph Fiennes. After her are Bassel al-Assad, Aleksandr Dugin, Sandra, Ismail Haniyeh, David Fincher, and Yahya Sinwar.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 139 out of 1,694. Before her are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Angelus Silesius (1624), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Alfred Tarski (1901), and Albert Sabin (1906). After her are Edward Sapir (1884), Anna Anderson (1896), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), and Adolph Menzel (1815).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 12. Before her are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), and Osip Mandelstam (1891). After her are Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), and Ernst Toller (1893).

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