Olga Tokarczuk: Quick Facts

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Born	January 29, 1962 (age 64) • Poland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2018) • Bukhman International Booker Prize (2018)
Notable Works	“Czuły narrator” • “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” • “Flights” • “Gra na wielu bębenkach” • “House of Day, House of Night” • “Ksiegi Jakobowe” • “Opowiadania bizarne” • “Podróż ludzi księgi” • “Primeval and Other Times” • ““The Empusium”

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