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Olga Tokarczuk

October 2024

  • Observer New Review Q&A ONLY Sept 2024 Leave Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, Mantua 10 September 2023. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

    Books interview
    Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk: ‘We live with violence and misogyny like some sort of constant illness’

    The Polish author on her new horror novel, the genius of John Cheever and chasing the London of her dreams

August 2024

  • From left: Olga Tokarczuk, Rumaan Alam, Haruki Murakami, Sally Rooney, Fatma Aydemir plus their new books.

    Autumn fiction special 2024
    The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

    The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

April 2024

  • A young girl reaches for a book between bookshelves in a library.

    A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

    Letters: Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widely

October 2023

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    Nobel laureate urges Polish opposition to commit to progressive causes

    Exclusive: Olga Tokarczuk’s comments come in rare political interview two weeks before potentially pivotal election

September 2023

  • Scott Handy (Antonio) and Patrick Stewart (Shylock) in The Merchant Of Venice by the Royal Shakespeare Company @ RST, Stratford upon Avon (Opening 19-05-11) ©Tristram Kenton 05/11 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Top 10s
    Top 10 grudge holders in fiction

    These characters are often seen as comical or absurd, but authors from Shakespeare to Olga Tokarczuk show they have serious things to tell us

April 2023

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, at the Barbican with Amanda Hadingue in the role of Janina.

    The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review

    Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

March 2023

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – a magnificent Complicité creation

    Simon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk

October 2022

  • Complicite's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Research Trip to Poland, Simon McBurney, director, and Olga Tokarczuk, writer

    Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

  • Annie Ernaux

    The Guardian view on Annie Ernaux: a vintage Nobel winner

September 2022

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    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels that interrupt time

    Most stories adhere to linear plots, but a select few – by authors from Martin Amis to Muriel Spark and Toni Morrison – respin the cogs to unforgettable effect

April 2022

  • The 2022 International Booker prize shortlist.

    International Booker prize shortlist delivers ‘awe and exhilaration’

    The final contenders for the £50,000 prize for translated fiction – five out of six by women – could see Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk win a second time

March 2022

  • The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist.

    International Booker prize announces longlist ‘tracing ring around the world’

    The 13 books in contention for the £50,000 prize include Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, the first book translated from Hindi to be nominated

February 2022

  • GERMANY-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-PEACE-DEMONSTRATION<br>A protestor holding a placard reading "Stand with Ukraine" marches amid the crowd on Strasse des 17. Juni road between the Victory column and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to demonstrate for peace in Ukraine on February 27, 2022. - More than 100,000 people turned up at the march in solidarity with Ukraine, police said, with many protesters dressed in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukraine flag. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Writers stand united in a call for peace

    Letter: Signatories from PEN International call for an end to the violence unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

November 2021

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    Book of the day
    The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk review – a messiah’s story

    The Nobel laureate’s visionary epic about 18th-century religious leader Jacob Frank takes on the biggest philosophical themes

June 2021

  • Review magazine cover 26th June 2021

    Stories to save the world: the new wave of climate fiction

    Now more than ever, novelists are facing up to the unthinkable: the climate crisis. Claire Armitstead talks to Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh and more about the new cli-fi

March 2021

  • A woman in wellingtons walking along a fallen tree trunk,in woodland.

    Brief letters
    How to slow down in a fast-moving world

    Brief letters: Olga Tokarczuk | Flags | Music festivals | Alan Turing | Art
  • Pile of books

    The Guardian view on the writing business: readers must ultimately benefit

    Editorial: People want stories and that means cultivating a publishing ecosystem where big and small can flourish

    • A picture book can paint a thousand words

    • The Guardian view on the picture book: not just for children

    • A Nobel winner turns to picture books: 'It is a powerful, primeval way of telling a story'

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