Nobel winner Tokarczuk to open new foundation for literature
Nobel prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk is planning to open a foundation to aid authors and translators of literature.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the author said the foundation will be located in Wroclaw and will offer scholarships for writers and translators and educational programmes on literature.
She added that it will also function as an international contact and debate platform.
The Nobel prize-winning author said the foundation, which will be housed in a villa once owned by renowned Polish poet Tymoteusz Karpowicz, will offer scholarships for writers and translators and educational programmes on literature.
The foundation will be housed in a villa once owned by renowned Polish poet Tymoteusz Karpowicz.
Tokarczuk, a Polish novelist, poet and essayist, is the 15th woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She also holds the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
The author won the prize earlier this month after impressing judges with her 'narrative imagination'.
Her main works include 'The Journey of the Book-People,' 'Primeval and Other Times,' 'Playing on Many Drums,' 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,' 'The Books of Jacob,' and 'Flights,' for which she won the Man Booker International Prize.
Nike, Poland's top literary prize, was awarded to Tokarczuk in 2008 for 'Flights' and in 2015 for 'The Book of Jacob.'
The 57-year-old is the most recognized Polish author of her generation abroad, wining the Man Booker International prize for the best work of translated fiction for her novel ‘Flights’ last year. The book was also nominated for the American National Book Award.
It is the first Nobel Prize for Literature to be won by a Polish writer for 23 years and the fifth in all. Previously, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska received the distinction in 1996.
Speaking at the press conference to announce her new foundation, Tokarczuk added that it will also function as an international contact and debate platform.
Earlier, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Polish writers Henryk Sienkiewicz in 1905 and Wladyslaw Reymont in 1924, and to poet, prose writer and translator Czeslaw Milosz in 1980.
