Born 1962 · Poland
International Booker 2022 · Shortlist
Księgi Jakubowe
Olga Tokarczuk · 52 when first published
Novel · 903 pages · Historical
Translated by Jennifer Croft
AI-generated summary:In the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jacob Frank proclaims himself the Messiah, and several thousand Jews from Podolia follow him into baptism and a long journey in search of a place of their own.
Also: Nike 2015 winner
International Booker 2019 · Shortlist
Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
Olga Tokarczuk · 47 when first published
Novel · 314 pages · Crime, Nature
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
AI-generated summary:In a remote mountain hamlet in the Kłodzko Valley, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric older woman who loves astrology and translates Blake, looks after her absent neighbours' houses until local hunters start dying.
Also: Warwick Prize 2019 shortlist
International Booker 2018 · Winner
Bieguni
Olga Tokarczuk · 45 when first published
Novel · 451 pages
Translated by Jennifer Croft
AI-generated summary:Fragments and stories about travel and travellers across places and centuries, from airports and hotels to the Moscow metro and a holiday in Croatia during which a man's wife and son vanish.
Also: National Book Award 2018 finalist · Warwick Prize 2018 shortlist · Nike 2008 winner
Nike 2002 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Playing on Many Drums”
Olga Tokarczuk · 39 when first published
Short stories · 342 pages
AI-generated summary:A large collection of stories in which, behind the curtain of everyday life, something always breaks the order of things and pulls people out of their routine.