WRITER

Olga Tokarczuk

1962 - Today

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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olga Tokarczuk has received more than 1,557,645 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Olga Tokarczuk is the 616th most popular writer (up from 744th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Poland (up from 157th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Writer.

Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer who is most famous for her novel, Flights.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 65.39

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  • 80

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  • 10.32

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  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bad Company
E.E
Podróż ludzi księgi
Polish fiction, Translations into Russian
Prawiek i inne czasy
Polish fiction, Translations into Russian
Profesor Andrews w Warszawie / Wyspa
Dom dzienny, dom nocny
Social life and customs, Fiction

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 616 out of 7,302Before her are Alexander Herzen, Stieg Larsson, Madame Roland, Ferenc Molnár, Anton Makarenko, and Dietrich Eckart. After her are Bert Hellinger, Louisa May Alcott, Émile Verhaeren, Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, and Alfred Döblin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 12Before her are Anthony Kiedis, Ismail Haniyeh, Jodie Foster, Nicolás Maduro, Demi Moore, and Ralph Fiennes. After her are Sandra, Abdullah II of Jordan, David Fincher, Antony Blinken, Alexander Litvinenko, and Aleksandr Dugin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 126 out of 1,694Before her are Saint Casimir (1458), Karl Hanke (1903), Kurt Daluege (1897), Albert Sabin (1906), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), and Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810). After her are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Alfred Döblin (1878), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Hanna Schygulla (1943), and Angelus Silesius (1624).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk ranks 11Before her are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), and Osip Mandelstam (1891). After her are Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), and B. Traven (1882).