Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962. She won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. She studied psychology at the University of Warsaw and debuted with the poetry volume
Cities in Mirrors. She is also the author of a prize-winning play, four novels and two books of short stories, and has received two Nike Reader's Prizes and the Berlin Bridge Literary Prize. She currently runs the RUTA publishing house and lives in the countryside near Nowa Ruda in southwestern Poland.
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