Man Booker International prize

Polish writer in the running for famous US literature prize

Tokarczuk's 'Flights' has already won awards in the UK and in her native Poland. Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP

After scooping a British prize Olga Tokarczuk’s book ‘Flights’ has been shortlisted for the National Book Awards in America.

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One of the most important literary prizes in America, previous winners of the National Book Awards include William Faulkner, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, while Polish writers Jerzy Kosiński and Isaac Bashevis Singer have also won awards.

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