Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk, one of the best and most celebrated Polish writers today, has received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 2019, and has been awarded prizes such as the Brueckepreis or the Nike, the most prestigious of those awarded in her country. country. Author of nine novels and three books of short stories, her works have been translated into forty-five languages and have earned her the recognition of colleagues such as Annie Proulx ("A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald") or Svetlana Alexiévich ("A magnificent writer »).

In Anagrama he has published A Place Called Antaño: "Tokarczuk is as skilled in creating characters as he is in articulating the plot, creating a universe where events are sprinkled with philosophical reflections and explosions of lyricism" (Rafael Narbona, The world); Los errantes, 2018 Man Booker International Prize and finalist for the National Book Award in the category of translated books: "A beautiful book about the need to cross borders to know something more about ourselves" (Rafael Narbona, El Mundo); «A novel-constellation» (Marta Rebón, El País); «Fascinating book, without genre» (Mercedes Monmany, ABC); "An inexhaustible book" (Domingo Ródenas de Moya, El Periódico); «Perhaps we are facing the best travel book ever written» (Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia); «A vibrant mosaic of stories» (Pablo Martínez Zarracina, El Correo); "A great and joyful read" (Santiago Aizarna, El Diario Vasco) and The Books of Jacob: "A work that asks to be read in the same terms as War and Peace" (Tim Smith-Laing, The Telegraph).