Olga Tokarczuk
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1 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk receiving her Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2019.
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2 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk after receiving her Nobel Prize at Konserthuset Stockholm, 10 December 2019.
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3 (of 15) 2018 literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk and 2019 literature laureate Peter Handke showing their Nobel Prize medals after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 2019.
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4 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk in conversation with H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Banquet 10 December 2019.
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5 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk signs the Nobel Foundation's guest book, signed by the laureates since 1952, during her visit to the Nobel Foundation on 12 December 2019.
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6 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk showing her Nobel Prize medal during her visit to the Nobel Foundation.
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7 (of 15) Twelve of the fifteen Nobel Laureates of 2019 assembled at the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm on 12 December 2019. Back row: James Peebles, Abhijit Banerjee, Didier Queloz, Michael Kremer, William G. Kaelin Jr and Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe. Front row: Olga Tokarczuk, Akira Yoshino, Esther Duflo, M. Stanley Whittingham, Gregg L. Semenza and Michel Mayor.
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8 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk delivering her Nobel Lecture in Literature at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 7 December 2019.
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9 (of 15) 2018 literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk and 2019 literature laureate Peter Handke after delivering their Nobel Prize lectures at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 7 December 2019.
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10 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk meeting with school children at Rinkeby library, Stockholm on 11 December 2019
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11 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk arriving to the laureates' get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2019.
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12 (of 15) At the Nobel Prize Museum, Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk donated her personal diary from 2018.
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13 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk after autographing a chair for the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2019.
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14 (of 15) Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk, 2018.
Photo: Lukasz Giza/Wydawnictwo Literackie.
15 (of 15) Olga Tokarczuk photographed at the time of her graduation from the University of Warsaw in 1987.
Photo: University of Warsaw.
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 14 laureates' work and discoveries range from quantum tunnelling to promoting democratic rights.
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