The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018

Olga Tokarczuk official Nobel portrait

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."
Olga Tokarczuk received her Nobel Prize in 2019.

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