Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose fiction explores memory, identity, place, and the connections between seemingly separate lives. After studying psychology at the University of Warsaw and working as a psychotherapist, she devoted herself to writing; her breakthrough came with *Primeval and Other Times*. She received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature for her boundary-crossing narrative imagination.