SoCultures October 2018
Her writings have a knack to portray through words the uncommon insight of
human psyche. At the age fifty six years, she has traversed both the territories with
aplomb- receiving the critical recognition as well as commercial success with her
books churning out millions in sale.
Olga Tokarczuk is undeniably one brilliant and outstanding author of her times,
admired by critics as well as readers.
Tokarczuk muses, 'To me writing novels is telling fairy tales to oneself, moved to
maturity.”
Tokarczuk is loved by the book readers in her country, Poland. Her readers respect
her for good taste, knowledge, literary talent, philosophical depth and the knack for
storytelling.
Olga By Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl - own work, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kmarius, CC BY 2.5,
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