In 2015, she received the German-Polish Bridge Prize for her contribution to mutual understanding between European nations. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades she has also won the Nike audience award five times. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob. For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. In 2019, 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". She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ( born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual.
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