SoCultures Magazine 2018 Vol 1 | Page 117

SoCultures October 2018 Sign up She is a word maverick, a powerful storyteller and also an activist, and an intellectual. She is Olga Tokarczuk. She writes literary fiction and is a proud recipient of prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize. It was 29 January 1962 when this Polish writer was born in Poland. She completed her studies at the university of Warsaw and lives in Walbrzych. Olga Tokarczuk By Unknown - archive of Wydawnictwo Literackie, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1398537 117 | P a g e